George Packer Quotes

When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens.

Iraq is falling apart.

Bad things usually don't happen by themselves in Iraq.

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

I think it is absolutely correct to solve the problem of terrorism in Iraq and Syria and Libya.

Iraq is a terrible place. Some fool American is going to come out here and try to redesign it

Yemen is one of the most dangerous spots in the world.

We have a failed state in Syria.

ISIS filled the vacuum in Iraq and Syria created by a lack of effective governance.

The deep problems that afflict the Middle East are not easy to fix, but they must be dealt with if we are not to see a son of ISIS, or even a grandson of ISIS, developing in the years to come.

Assad's brutality has nurtured extremism and been its main recruiting sergeant.

Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.

The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.

Fundamentalist governments and organizations endanger stability in the world.

By 2007, Iraqi society had completely collapsed.

Somalia is very dangerous, and no one knows that better than I.

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism.

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

The Wahhabists are the boogeymen, the guys who will chop the head off any American they catch. And they will destroy Iraq without a second thought if they believe that the instability will benefit them.

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.

Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of 'the Troubles.'