Elliott Abrams Quotes
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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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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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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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The best-armed and best-trained divisions of the Syrian army are Alawite.
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Senator Kerry was fooled by Bashar al-Assad.
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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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Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.
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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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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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I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.
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Sari Nusseibeh is a man without a country.
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Egypt needs law and order in Sinai to save the tourist industry in Sharm el-Sheik and prevent the area from becoming a base for terrorists that will target Egypt itself, as well as Jordan and Israel.
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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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You can do a no-fly zone without ground forces.
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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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After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.
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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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Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.
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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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America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.
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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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There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.
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Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.