“It's very hard to understand just what our strategy is in Syria, frankly, and on Iraq that this is Iraq's war, that the role of the United States is to help Iraq, to arm, train, support, provide air support, but this has to be Iraq's war.” WarHardStatesHelpingUnitedRolesUnited StatesSupportAirArmsStrategyTrainIraqSyria Author:David Ignatius
“The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda than anything that the United States has done. They have shown that there is a third way, that with peaceful protest you can have an end to dictatorship and a role for human dignity, a role for your religious faith in society.” PeopleWayHumansEndsStatesDoneReligiousUnitedRolesUnited StatesStreetsDignityThirdsDefeatPeacefulIdeologyProtestIranAlsDictatorshipSyriaEgyptReligious FaithAl QaedaHuman DignityLibyaPeaceful ProtestTunisia Author:Reza Aslan
“So my judgment is that Syria will move; Syria will change, as it embraces a legitimate relationship with the United States and the West and economic opportunity that comes with it and the participation that comes with it.” StatesMovingOpportunityUnitedUnited StatesEconomicJudgmentEmbraceWestSyriaParticipation Author:John F. Kerry
“The North Korean regime remains one of the world's leading proliferator of missile technology, including transfers to Iran and Syria. The transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or non-state entities would be considered a grave threat to the United States, and we would hold North Korea fully accountable of the consequences of such action.” WorldStatesWould BeActionUnitedTechnologyUnited StatesMaterialsWeaponsConsequenceRemainsThreatIncludingNuclearGravesUsaIranRegimesNuclear WeaponsEntitySyriaKoreaNorth KoreaTransfersMissilesKoreanNorth Korean Author:George W. Bush
“ISIL presents a growing threat not only in Syria and Iraq, but throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and now in the United States as well. Terrorists and their enablers will continue to receive the unwavering attention of law enforcement and the intelligence community.” WellsStatesLawCommunityUnitedAttentionUnited StatesGrowingMiddleEuropeThreatIraqEastTerroristMiddle EastSyriaLaw EnforcementEnforcementUnwaveringIsilIntelligence CommunityNorth AfricaEnablers Author:Devin Nunes
“Saddam is neither friend nor brother to us, and he will never pay off debts to us. It's the question of precedent: today the United States doesn't like Iraq, tomorrow Syria, then Iran, North Korea and then what: everyone else?” StatesTodayUnitedPayUnited StatesBrotherTomorrowIraqDebtUsaIranSyriaSaddamKoreaNorth KoreaPrecedent Author:Robin Cook
“Syria doesn't want to talk with us on a bilateral basis, only under the auspices of the United States.” WantStatesUnitedUnited StatesBasesSyria Author:Yitzhak Rabin
“We appreciate the efforts of the United States, of the president, of the secretary of state, and we are ready to find any form of talks, but we have to overcome the differences between Syria and Israel to reach peace.” StatesFormPresidentDifferencesUnitedEffortUnited StatesReadyAppreciateOvercomingIsraelSecretarySyria Author:Yitzhak Rabin
“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
“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
“We try to coordinate regularly with Russia, as well as with others - except for the United States - on what is happening in the region. And we're open to discussing with everybody the situation in Syria, because we believe it's a common threat.” TryingBelieveWellsStatesUnitedCommonSituationUnited StatesHappeningsThreatRussiaRegionsSyriaDiscussing Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif
“We have to remember examples of many artists of conscious rap who have been coopted by the Department of State of the United States to be cultural ambassadors in different parts of the world, like Syria, like other parts of the Middle East, including conscious Islamic-American rappers that are representing an international political agenda for the United States through cultures more affable for people of color in other parts of the world.” PeopleWorldHas BeensDifferentStatesRememberPoliticalArtistCultureUnitedUnited StatesMiddleExampleColorConsciousIncludingInternationalRapEastIslamicDepartmentAgendasRapperMiddle EastSyriaRepresentingAmbassadorsPolitical AgendasAffableConscious Rap Author:Bocafloja