Argument Quote by Andrew Sullivan

If you know anything about Islamic civilization, or about the contemporary Middle East, about the sociology and the anthropology of the people who live…

— Mark Helprin

Once we affirm the goal of trying to make sure that you don't have jihadis infiltrating terrorist flows, we need to make sure we're…

— Benjamin E. Sasse

My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly…

— Scott Ritter

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I'm absolutely confident that the actions we took in Iraq are influencing reformers and freedom lovers in the greater Middle East. And I believe…

— George W. Bush

You cannot possibly expect even the most illiterate person on Earth to believe that you really want a democracy in Iraq while you are…

— Michael Scheuer

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.

— Michael Scheuer

You in the West have been sold the idea that the only options in the Arab world are between authoritarian regimes and Islamic jihadists.…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short…

— Anonymous

I don't think you can solve what's going on in Iraq unless you can deal effectively with the region and you can't deal effectively…

— Wesley Clark

America must keep jihad out, especially when we know exactly where it is coming from.

— Katie Pavlich

The combat [with ISIS] on the ground must be done by Muslim troops with our support. We must not get involved in perpetual warfare…

— Bernie Sanders