Syria Quotes - Page 18

• The good news is that the international coalition, in which our military contributes, has done a lot to reduce the ground space, the territory in Iraq, Syria that ISIL once occupied a couple years ago. That's a good thing. And a lot of that, frankly, has occurred in Trump administration, so I'll give them credit for that.

  Jeh Johnson

  Couple, Military, Giving

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Syria is the center of the Arab Orient. It cannot live outside its relationship with the Arabian Peninsula, the Gulf countries, Egypt and others. We need economic and investment support from our fellow Arabs the future. Our future is truly tied to the Arab world and the Gulf in particular.

  Burhan Ghalioun

  Country, Support, World

  "Syria Opposition Leader Interview". The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. December 2, 2011.

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• I dream about going back, but I know that it isn't easy. Thirty years of being in Europe has changed my life. I am not the Kurd from Syria anymore as I was before. Kurdistani Syria developed somewhere, and I developed elsewhere. I think we will not find each other easily again. If I go back I will be a foreigner in my own country now. But of course it remains a dream to make another movie in Syria, and I am waiting for that opportunity.

  Mano Khalil

  Dream, Country, Opportunity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Now the world believes in Kurds, as they have become partners in that region. The West doesn't believe in the Iraqi government - not in Maliki before or Abadi today. It doesn't believe in Syria in any way, nor in Iran. So the Kurds could maybe work together with the Western world to bring stability to the region. It's a nice change, coming as it is after hundreds of years of the struggle of the Kurds.

  Mano Khalil

  Nice, Struggle, Believe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think it was going to be hard to work with Russians on Syria. There is some potential overlap between the U.S. and Russia in that the Russians don't want to see the Syria situation unravel to a point where they have to escalate their own involvement. But at the moment, I don't see the U.S. and Russia on the same page in Syria. Russia seems much more interested in consolidating government control over liberated areas. It seems to me that the U.S. and Russia are proving they can disagree for independent reasons in any number of theaters.

  Richard N. Haass

  Independent, Thinking, Moments

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• Turkey's relations with its immediate neighbors are improving. They were pretty bad for a long time - with Syria they were abominable, and with Iran they were pretty bad. In both cases Turkey sees potential for trade, especially with Iran, where it gets a lot of natural gas. In good times Iran and Turkey find mutually profitable objects of exchange, but with Syria things have been very bad; Syria doesn't have much money and never will.

  Andrew Mango

  Long, Good Times, Neighbor

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• I think no country is going to be immune from the Arab awakening because the Arab awakening is driven by deep human longing for dignity, for justice and for freedom. I think that applies to young people in Saudi Arabia as much as to young people in Egypt, Tunisia, or Yemen, or Libya, or Syria. If I were in Saudi Arabia, I would be getting ahead of this and looking for ways to appreciate those aspirations and align my country with them.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Thinking, Egypt

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• For America to get more entangled militarily in Syria is a serious step, and we have to do so making absolutely certain that we know who we are helping; that we're not putting arms in the hands of folks who eventually could turn them against us or allies in the region.

  Barack Obama

  Hands, America, Allies

  Source: genius.com

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• I would say I need two things: the first one is to be objective in every statement he could make regarding any conflict around the world, including Syria. The second one is not to turn Secretary-General office into a part or branch of the State Department of the United States.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Two, Office, Firsts

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• Whatever else their faults may be, they were not radical Islamist states - Iraq was not, Syria is not, Libya was not. The most radical fundamentalist Islamist state is, of course, your America's Saudi Arabia.

  Arundhati Roy

  Iraq, America, Arabia

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The idea that Hezbollah is acting as an agent of Iran is very dubious. It's not accepted by specialists on Iran or specialists on Hezbollah. But it's the party line. Or sometimes you can put in Syria, i.e. "Syrian-supported Hezbollah," but since Syria is of less interest now you have to emphasize Iranian support.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Iran, Ideas

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It would seem to be the case that pressure on Iran to acquire nuclear weapons is almost totally driven by their need for a deterrent capability to avoid the fate of Iraq, Libya. The use of American military force in Syria thus sends exactly the opposite message as supposedly desired to the leadership in Tehran - and to others. North Korea has been dealt with diplomatically because it has the bomb and might use it if provoked.

  Richard A. Falk

  Military, Fate, Iran

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• While in the American academia the knowledge production on the Middle East in general and Syria in particular has been considerably transformed in recent years, the dissemination of these more updated views fails to reach the conventional educational system. For two main reasons: Politics can still subdue and censor views that are not endorsed ideologically, and academics have still not learned how to write openly, directly and, one should say, courageously about these issues.

  Ilan Pappe

  Educational, Writing, Views

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Syria is bad enough, it's a pretty terrible atrocity. But there are much worse ones in the world. So for example, the worst atrocities in the past decade have been in the Congo, the Eastern Congo, where maybe 5 million people have been killed.

  Noam Chomsky

  Past, People, Atrocities

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Credible reports came through that Syria had used chemical weapons. Whether it's true actually is still open to question, but it's very probably true. At that point, what was at stake was what is called credibility. So if you read the political actors, political leadership, foreign policy commentary, they constantly point out accurately that US credibility was at stake, and we have to maintain US credibility. So therefore something had to be done to show you can't violate our orders.

  Noam Chomsky

  Order, Political, Done

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• A bombing was planned [in Syria], which would probably make the situation worse, but would at least establish US credibility.

  Noam Chomsky

  Credibility, Situation, Bombing

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I call it extreme vetting. And if people don`t like it - we`ve got have a country, folks, got to have a country. Countries in which immigration will be suspended would include places like Syria and Libya.

  Donald Trump

  Country, People, Immigration

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think Gary Johnson was probably expressing frustration at a series of pop quizzes. He actually was more authoritative on what to do in Syria before the Aleppo moment than any of the other candidates. And I think he called it about right. There is too many different rebel groups there. And it`s a terribly confused situation.

  William Weld

  Confused, Frustration, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There's a lot of sympathy, but some people in America don't care. They think Syria is a very faraway place and that it's none of their business.

  Osama Alomar

  Thinking, People, Care

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.

  Robert Fisk

  Names, Democracy, Assad

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• Peace with Syria would provide more security than a few settlements on the Golan.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Settlement, Security

  Yitzhak Rabin, Efraim Inbar, Merkaz Besa le-meḥḳarim asṭraṭegiyim (1996). “Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue”

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• One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

  Prince Charles

  Climate, Conflict, Terrorism

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.

  Prince Charles

  Land, Numbers, Years

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on its support for Palestinian terrorist groups that oppose the Palestinian Authority, on, most importantly, acting as a land bridge between Iran and Hezbollah, where Hezbollah gets all its arms.

  Elliott Abrams

  Issues, Iran, Land

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• The people who are pushing Jewish supremacism, Zionism – they are absolute evil and they are crazy. All they know is more power, and so there is a real danger, I should say, for Syria , and a danger for Iran at this point.

  David Duke

  Crazy, Real, Iran

  "It'’s Time to Re-think David Duke" by Israel Shamir, www.unz.com. December 21, 2005.

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