Elliott Abrams Quotes
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The U.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them, and to do so without agreeing to unfair, damaging compromises.
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If you say to the White House, 'Obama has been very unfriendly to Israel,' they say, 'What do you mean? It's the best military-to-military relationship ever.' And that part is true.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.
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Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you may as well amuse yourself by attacking the Jews.
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The best-armed and best-trained divisions of the Syrian army are Alawite.
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The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans.
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The Assad regime has lost the consent of the governed, and it is difficult to see how a replacement Alawite regime would be able to regain this consent.
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If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock.
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I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.
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Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.
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After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.
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For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts of the globe, these nations were left behind, their 'freedom deficit' signaling the political underdevelopment that accompanied many other economic and social maladies.
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While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.
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If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they become so.
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Sari Nusseibeh is a man without a country.
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The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.
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When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.
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Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.
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There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.
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America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.
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Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admired, George C. Marshall, and won a place in Israel's history by recognizing the new state 11 minutes after it declared its independence in 1948.
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Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier.
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Rahm Emanuel seems to think he knows Israel very well, and that the way to treat that country and its democratically-elected government is the way he treats all opponents in politics: by attacking and attacking.
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In public, an admission of technological inadequacy would be too embarrassing.