Challenges Quote by George W. Bush

I think, not only Al Qaida have an ideology; they have tactics necessary to spread their ideology. And it would be a huge mistake…

— George W. Bush

There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with…

— Robert Foster Bennett

The terrorists want civil war. Al-Qaida is attacking Shiites. The Shiite militias are taking revenge on the Sunnis. And the Sunnis are become more…

— Zalmay Khalilzad

Al-Qaida in particular remains dangerous, and there [in Iraq] is some residual militia and special group presence. There are still between 20 and 30…

— David Petraeus

The challenge there is that ISIL doesn't have an air force, so the damage done there is not against ISIL, it's against the Syrian…

— Barack Obama

In the fight against ISIL, we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorizes its people; a regime that will never regain the legitimacy…

— Barack Obama

The kind of problem that America faces in Iraq is a little bit the kind of problem that Israel faced in dealing with Hezbollah.…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

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

It is important to understand that there are two separate battles taking place in Iraq: there is the political rift between the Sunnis, Shia…

— Anonymous

A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.

— Jim DeMint

It cannot be an American fight. And I think what the president [Barack Obama] has consistently said - which I agree with - is…

— Hillary Clinton

If you look at the current Mosul campaign against ISIL, for example the few thousand troops that we have there to support that effort…

— Barack Obama