Crazy Quote by H. R. McMaster

And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology…

— William Kristol

The country of Iraq is somewhat of an artificial creation going back to colonial days. And so you have the Kurds and then the…

— James Clapper

Everybody wants to talk about sectarian conflicts of the war in Iraq, but the fact of the matter is, Sunnis have lived with Shias…

— Jack Keane

Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only…

— Michael Ignatieff

In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.

— Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

Religious distinctions are deeply important for many of the problems in today's Middle East, particularly between Sunni and Shia Muslims in Syria and Iraq.

— Max Fisher

Sunnis consider Shias a pack of unwholesome fanatics and Shias consider Sunnis a gang of lukewarm no-goods - there's nothing like religion for spreading…

— Dervla Murphy

It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There…

— Michael Nesmith

Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who identified most closely with the Iraqi nation, remain in some…

— Noah Feldman

The feeling of being an Iraqi unites all ethnic groups within this country. Even the Kurds, who have traditionally pushed for their own state,…

— Zalmay Khalilzad

Every year, millions of people from Iran and Iraq travel to each other's countries, and we also have marriages between Iraqis and Iranians. Many…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Iraqis don't trust one another, parties and ministries are run by sects and not by functionaries.

— Lawrence Kaplan