Victor Davis Hanson Quotes

The jihadists watch carefully what's happening in the Middle East and take heart, or lose heart, depending on what's happening.

A victory for the Taliban in Afghanistan would have catastrophic consequences for the world - particularly for South Asia, for Central Asia, and for the Middle East.

IS [Islamic State] has played a major role in helping Bashar al-Assad to reposition Syria on the international scene. Now, it is almost impossible to come up with a solution that would exclude him. The political game appears to be very cynical indeed.

No border that touches Israel is always secure.

Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.

Ungoverned spaces in the Islamic world will be exploited by people who wish us ill. They will not be contained.

The U.S. must remember - as the Gadhafi loyalists have and Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh are now realizing - that it cannot get into bed with groups affiliated with the jihadist movement.

Iran is the base of an axis of evil which is a problem for all the world.

The answer as to why ISIS gained power and influence, and why stability in the Middle East has disastrously deteriorated, does not require extensive analysis.

On the global scale, if there's a shaky Middle East, there's a shaky world.

I think that ISIS is a problem and it's really a symptom of a much greater problem.

I close with two words, ‘Kill ISIS!’ God bless you all!

ISIS is a monstrosity. It didn't come from nowhere. It's one of the results of the U.S. hitting a very vulnerable society - Iraq - with a sledgehammer.

We have a war against Daesh (the Islamic State, or IS) in Syria. A coalition that was led by the United States, with Saudi Arabia being one of the first members of that coalition.

There's a new Osama bin Laden video. He's the only person that is looking thin during the holidays. How does he do it? I think he's going to Jenny Craig.

The rise of ISIS in Iraq is a wider threat to the stability of the Middle East and the West than many realise.

We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.

But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.

Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly.

If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.

We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?

The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.