Allies Quote by S.E. Cupp

It cannot be an American fight. And I think what the president [Barack Obama] has consistently said - which I agree with - is…

— Hillary Clinton

I always tell the Kurds who defend independence: Let's say we declared the independent Kurdish state and Syria, Iran, Iraq and Turkey imposed sanctions…

— Jalal Talabani

I do believe that the Kurds are in a difficult situation. They do have some American support. How consistent that will be is unclear.…

— Joshua Landis

If you go into Hasakah province in northeast Syria, that's an area that's as big as Lebanon. It's controlled by the Kurds, the Christians…

— Benjamin Carson

Syria is a multi-confessional state: in addition to Sunni and Shia Muslims, there are Alawites, Orthodox and other Christian confessions, Druzes, and Kurds.

— Sergei Lavrov

United States military involvement in Syria has deepened since President Trump took office.

— Judy Woodruff

You've seen President Trump act decisively when it comes to Syria. It didn't take him long to pull the trigger in regard to a…

— Reince Priebus

To move any regime you need to have co-operation and co-ordination between Kurds, Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs, the people and the army. Until we…

— Jalal Talabani

Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is…

— Luke Harding

Iran is barely over 50% Persian, and Arabs, Baluchis, Azeris, Kurds and many other groups feel left out of the society. That regime has…

— John Bolton

The Kurds know that they won't achieve their own state by force of arms but through international recognition. And they have certainly heard what…

— Ahmed Chalabi

The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free.

— Timothy Noah

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had and used significant weapons of mass destruction on his own people, both…

— Curt Weldon

Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into three parts…

— Uri Avnery

The country of Iraq is somewhat of an artificial creation going back to colonial days. And so you have the Kurds and then the…

— James Clapper