Abandoned Quote by Jimmy Carter

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

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

— Peter DeFazio

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

The Sunni Arabs began to realize that they had made a huge mistake by not voting in the election of 2005 and by not…

— David Petraeus

Many Sunnis joined Islamic State because they felt they were being treated poorly. Winning back their trust is the primary task of the new…

— Ahmed Chalabi

It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some…

— John Abizaid

The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other…

— Peter Bergen

It is unfortunate that there is not a government in Iraq that has been able to unify the Shiites and the Sunnis sufficiently. They…

— Richard Lugar

What happened in Iraq and Syria was that the world remained silent as ISIS expanded.

— Nadia Murad

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 Sunnis continue to see themselves, possibly for nostalgic reasons, as the most influential group and want a stronger central government - quite unlike…

— Zalmay Khalilzad

The Sunnis no longer recognize the centralized government as a legitimate power. The Shia militia that is moving around is calling out war crimes…

— Ryan Zinke