Elliott Abrams Quotes
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Sari Nusseibeh is a man without a country.
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The Middle East that Obama inherited in 2009 was largely at peace, for the surge in Iraq had beaten down the al Qaeda-linked groups. U.S. relations with traditional allies in the Gulf, Jordan, Israel and Egypt were very good. Iran was contained, its Revolutionary Guard forces at home.
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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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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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You can do a no-fly zone without ground forces.
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Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for president in 1972 and 1976, and was for much of the 1970s and 1980s one of the most powerful men in America.
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At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.
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The Obama administration appears to regard intelligence leaks and briefings more or less like briefings by the Democratic National Committee or White House flack Jay Carney. You use any information at hand, classified or not, and you spin it any way you like, fairly or not.
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Israel bombed the Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007. What the Syrians did in response, nothing. Israel has killed a number of terrorist leaders in Syria. Response? Nothing.
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The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it.
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I personally would not talk to a Jew for Jesus.
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Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career.
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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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History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.
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Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.
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Reagan did not wait out the Soviets; he beat them.
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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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Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.
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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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Senator Kerry was fooled by Bashar al-Assad.
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When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was the Clinton/Rabin and Bush/Sharon combination, Israel must respond.
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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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America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.
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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.