Intervention Quote by Peter Bergen

Assad must go. He's lost the legitimacy to govern.

— Chuck Hagel

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 see a bit of a contradiction between the fight against the Islamic State and the desire to remove the Assad regime. And even…

— Judy Woodruff

I'm no apologist for Russia or the Assad regime, but actually, this has been staring us in the face for a number of years…

— Jeremy Hunt

The Russians have an interest inside of Syria. They want to boost up the Assad regime. They want to give moral support and international…

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

I think continued actions by Bashar al-Assad clearly call into any question of him expecting to have any legitimacy to continue as the leader…

— Rex W. Tillerson

The regime is in trouble economically and can no longer offer anything to its citizens. That's why [Vladimir] Putin has to pursue an aggressive…

— Garry Kasparov

I don't understand this thing about [Bashar] Assad. He has to go. Assad is aligned with Iran and Russia. The one thing we want…

— John Kasich

Putin is backing Assad - a person that's truly an evil person. And I think it's very bad for Russia. I think it's very…

— Donald Trump

We know that russians are deeply engaged in supporting Assad because they want to have a place in the Middle East. They have a…

— Hillary Clinton

Here's the problem - under both Obama and Trump, American military forces and assistance have provided just enough support to anti-Assad forces to keep…

— Chris Murphy