Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve. – Ariel Sharon
I can reveal today that the U.S. government has information to indicate that individuals tied to terrorist groups in Syria have already attempted to gain access to our country through the U.S. refugee program. – Mike McCaul
I’m over here with the French counterterrorism experts talking about the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ case, how we can stop foreign fighters from coming out of Iraq and Syria to Europe, but then we have this phenomenon in the United States where they can be activated by the Internet, and, really, terrorism has gone viral. – Mike McCaul
The understanding of Syria’s devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it. – Nancy Gibbs
Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA. – Ed Markey
The United States and its Gulf allies, some of who are actively funding rebel groups in Syria, should undertake a serious joint review of Jordan’s needs and then act together to meet them. – Elliott Abrams
I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous. – Ehud Olmert
Our enemy in Syria is Daesh: it’s not about containing but destroying this organisation. – Francois Hollande
Israel bombed the Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007. What the Syrians did in response, nothing. Israel has killed a number of terrorist leaders in Syria. Response? Nothing. – Elliott Abrams
There’s a conspiracy going on online every day between these top U.K. individuals within ISIS leadership out of Syria. – Mike McCaul
The threat that Syria might transfer more advanced weapons to Hezbollah has existed for a long time. – Elliott Abrams
Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. – Michael Ledeen
Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations. – Fidel Castro
We know that there are various activities important to the insurgents in Iraq that are occurring in Syria. – Douglas Feith
Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it’s the perfect Sunni jihad. – Peter L. Bergen
It’s difficult to see how Syria can have any long-term future with Assad there as president. Many people would never return to that country if that were the case. – George Osborne
It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran. – Ehud Olmert
If you want to hear arguments against deploying a big U.S. ground force in Syria, just ask a general. – David Ignatius
What I’m trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what’s going on in Syria. – Najib Mikati
The Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Al Qaeda in Iraq are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria. – Michael T. Flynn
I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don’t think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it. – Ehud Olmert
Beyond Iraq, I am also profoundly worried about the continuing meltdown of Syria, which is a geopolitical Chernobyl. Until it is capped, it is going to continue to spew radioactive instability and extremist ideology over the entire region. – David Petraeus
My guess is that before Obama departs, he will adopt some of the more aggressive military options he has been resisting, such as ‘safe zones’ inside Syria and more aggressive deployment of U.S. special forces. – David Ignatius
Syria is still the foundation of the axis of evil, and I’m not sure it’s appropriate to transfer Israel’s northern front to the axis of evil. – Eli Yishai
