Advantage Quote by Marco Rubio

Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad belongs to the small Alawite sect and is therefore considered a heretic by many Sunnis; al-Assad runs a secular regime,…

— Peter Bergen

[Bashar] Assad is one of the main reasons why ISIS even exists to begin with. Assad is a puppet of Iran.

— Marco Rubio

Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it's the perfect Sunni jihad.

— Peter Bergen

ISIS is in many ways a creation of the Syrian regime.

— Richard Engel

Assad's regime helped ISIS grow by attacking other opposition forces and rarely targeting ISIS.

— Richard Engel

I think we can all agree [Bashar] Assad is a bad and evil actor, but I'm not so sure that we want the Islamic…

— Rand Paul

Part of the problem that we have currently in the Middle East is that[Bashar] Assad has hung on to power with the very strong…

— Hillary Clinton

Assad is the president of Syria. He enjoys fairly effective control over his country.

— Ehud Olmert

I'll tell you whose view on [Bashar] Assad is the same as mine. It's Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu. Prime Minister Netanyahu has said Israel…

— Ted Cruz

The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And…

— Anonymous

Indeed, by refusing to tackle Assad's brutality, we may actively alienate more of the Sunni population, driving them towards ISIS.

— Jo Cox

In Iraq, a ruthless dictator cultivated weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. He gave support to terrorists, had an established…

— Dick Cheney