Rahm Emanuel Quotes

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.

We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck.

The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he [Saddam Hussein] is in power.

You listen to the intelligence community, they say, listen, maybe it's ISIS today, it's somebody else tomorrow. We'll deal with the caliphate, but it's going to take years to be able to handle this.

But clearly, this is what this is about. It's about pushing the security bubble out. It's about rooting out every last guy, so that there's not even somebody who can fire a single, solitary RPG round from some little qalat out here.

It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.

You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

With terrorism becoming the increasing tactic of choice, the military component would become a smaller component of our national security system.

We must take all that territory away from ISIS.

We're in a war with ISIS and we need a leader who understands exactly what that means.

Identifying terrorists on the battlefield is relatively simple.

I think there are a number of issues that we should be addressing. I have put forth a plan to defeat ISIS.

Degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL

We're facing a very different sort of threat now, a more amorphous threat, al Qaeda, terrorism, and so on. And so the military has abandoned the two-war strategy.

The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.

Yugoslavia and Serbia will fight against terrorists regardless of whether a political agreement is reached or not.

I don't think that anyone should doubt Israel's determination to defend itself against terror and destruction.

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.

We [Afghanistan government] were in the process of cleaning up the government when these attacks happened in the north - not only in Kunduz, but also in other provinces. Our special forces are limited - we cannot be everywhere at the same time and we had to defend every district regardless of how insignificant it might be, because of the very social and political makeup of this country.

I just want to say that we are going to hit ISIS hard, and I mean really hard, but I do think this.

You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.

The kind of problem that America faces in Iraq is a little bit the kind of problem that Israel faced in dealing with Hezbollah. If the conflict, the theater of conflict enlarges, it's going to become more and more absorbing and more and more costly.

The will of the United States can be shaken by suiciders and suiciders who are willing to drive up to a Red Cross center, a center of international help and aid and comfort, and just kill. [...] The strategy remains the same. The tactics to respond to more suiciders driving cars will alter on the ground.