Michael T. Flynn Quotes

Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.

If anything caused ISIS, it was the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Al Qaeda is alive and well in Libya, Iraq, Syria and the wars are not receding.

The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise.

The Islamic State is a threat to both the moderate Islam headed by Mr. Saad al-Hariri and, of course, for Hezbollah. There is a convergence, an anxiety of a common enemy... which is good.

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

There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.

The rise of ISIS is a result of - Obama and Clinton making a decision to pull our troops out without preparing Iraq is a colossal mistake.

Iran is not an enemy of ISIS; they have a lot to gain from the turmoil that ISIS creates.

British intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan swelled the grievances home-grown fanatics fed off, while al Qaeda morphed and re-grouped in lawless sanctuaries from Somalia to Yemen.

There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there related to Palestine and to Israel that we ought to be trying to deal with. And there's a great deal of targets in the Philippines, Indonesia. You name it, there are a number of places where there are targets that we ought to be trying to deal with.

An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.

When you look at Syria, and you look at all the militant groups on the ground, there are many groups in Syria that could pose a threat to the United States, not just Khorasan.

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.

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

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

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

Al Qaeda is closely aligned with the Chechens.

We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.

ISIS is in many ways a creation of the Syrian regime.

The islamo-fascists see Israel as the appetizer. We are the main course.

I have always wondered why the Muslim world is in the eye of virtually every storm, in my lifetime at least?

Look what's going on: the Iranians are spreading military capabilities throughout the region; look what's going on in Yemen, Hizbollah, their cooperation with Assad, terror activities the world over, undermining regimes and states.

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

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