“One great lesson from history we need to keep on re-learning. It is that sometimes your adversaries tell you exactly what they're going to do. How many times did [Osama] bin Laden say prior to 9/11 that he was coming after the U.S.? ISIS made clear that when they established their caliphate in Iraq and Syria, they were coming after the United States too.” NeedsMadeSometimesStatesUnitedUnited StatesClearLessonsIraqSyriaAdversariesIsisBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:Michael Morell
“What's important to do is we must deal frontally with this threat of radical Islamists, especially from ISIS. This is the most sophisticated terror group that has ever threatened the world or the United States of America.” WorldImportantStatesAmericaUnitedDealsUnited StatesGroupsThreatTerrorRadicalSophisticatedUnited States Of AmericaThreatenedIsisWhat's ImportantIslamists Author:Marco Rubio
“The United States wanted to send its trained rebel groups to Syria to fight ISIS. Out of twenty-five hundred rebels they had trained, only seventy accepted to go to Syria to fight ISIS. Everybody else wanted to go to Syria to fight the government. So you've got to wake up and smell the coffee. . . . The rebel groups have not fired a shot against ISIS.” StatesGovernmentWantedFightingUnitedUnited StatesFiveGroupsHundredShotsWake UpTwentiesSmellAcceptedCoffeeRebelSyriaSeventiesIsisTwenty Five Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif