Government Quote by James Clapper

Bashar Assad has been so brutal toward the Sunni within Syria that he created the space that led to the people of Syria themselves…

— Marco Rubio

The overall feckless strategy against ISIS in Syria and Iraq enabled the Islamist organization to expand its domain and drive out more religious minorities.

— Pete Hoekstra

The US empowered the Shi'a Islamic political groups and marginalised a big part of Iraq who were recognised as Sunni people. It was only…

— Yanar Mohammed

Adding to your list of enemies is never a sound strategy, yet ISIS' ferocious campaign against the Shia, Kurds, Yazidis, Christians, and Muslims who…

— Peter Bergen

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

By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda's mind, they were…

— Jack Keane

When Saddam Hussein was eliminated, the Iraqi statehood and thousands of people from the former Baath party were also eliminated. Thousands of Iraqi servicemen,…

— Vladimir Putin

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

“By the end of 2004, U.S. operations in Iraq had been rough enough to antagonize the Sunni population without imposing the draconian methods armies…

— Bing West

“So the insurgency was born in a perfect storm of American errors--not establishing order; not providing the semblance of any government; confirming to the…

— Peter Bergen

“In Iraq, the public has lost all sense of self; it exists only in the form artificially imparted to it by “its” regime. This…

— Kanan Makiya

“Secondly, given Iraq’s position as the largest and most powerful Arab state in the Gulf, it was viewed by the revolutionary regime as the…

— Efraim Karsh