Democracy Quote by Peter Bergen

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

— Timothy Garton Ash

The war on terror, rebranded under Obama as the "Overseas Contingency Operation," has morphed into war on democracy.

— Henry Giroux

“Just as the West’s support for the Afghan jihad against the Soviets in the 1980s laid the ground for the rise of Islamist terrorism,…

— Edward Luce

The 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S. and coalition partners stands as one of the greatest blunders in American history. The Islamic State, also…

— Lawrence Wright

The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.

— Amy Waldman

After Iraq, there's been Libya, there's Syria, and the rhetoric of, you know, democracy versus radical Islam. When you look at the countries that…

— Arundhati Roy

America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by…

— Kenny Marchant

Less about politics, 'The Path to 9/11' focused on the emergence of radical Islamic terror as a clear and present American threat.

— Andrew Breitbart

[Roots of terrorism] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world, the Arab…

— Edward Said

Faced with the collapse of Iraq into something like Lebanon - or worse, Somalia - the Bush administration opted for a new counterinsurgency strategy.…

— Noah Feldman

As the war on terrorism spreads and prolongs, the fruits of ending the threat of terrorism around the world will be tempered with a…

— Charles Bass

American foreign policy in the George W. Bush era was made by a president closely affiliated with evangelical Christianity. The thrust of his agenda…

— Mollie Hemingway