Air Quote by Peter Bergen

There were between 46 and 52 drone strikes under the [George W.] Bush administration. And now there are over 400 - that's not counting…

— Medea Benjamin

American airstrikes have targeted ISIS in Libya before. Just last fall, another ISIS leader was killed. And I'm told there are several more training…

— Tom Bowman

Any American strike will not destroy as much as the terrorists have already destroyed in Syria ; sometimes the repercussions could be many doubles…

— Bashar al-Assad

In Yemen, the United States conducted more drone strikes in 2016 than any year except 2012, the peak of the campaign in the country,…

— Peter Bergen

Using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we launched roughly…

— Ted Cruz

Any strike will be as direct support to Al-Qaeda offshoot that's called Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. You're right…

— Bashar al-Assad

We're fighting a war on terror because the enemy attacked us first, and hit us hard. ... Al Qaeda's leadership has said they have…

— Dick Cheney

No one except for al-Assad's army is fighting against ISIS or other terrorist organisations in Syria, no one else is fighting them on Syrian…

— Vladimir Putin

It's unclear how air strikes on our part can succeed unless the Iraqi army is willing to fight, and that's uncertain given the fact…

— Carl Levin

The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had struck before…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America…

— Ike Skelton

The air strikes are important [to fight ISIS], but we need to have an air force capable of it. And because of the budget…

— Marco Rubio