Benjamin Gilman Quotes

Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.

The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.

This wretched war in Iraq which we never should have started, we don’t seem to be able to win, and we don’t know how to get out of …

We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.

On Putin's order, Russia intervenes in Syria not to fight terrorists but to abet the war crimes of the Assad regime. Russian bombers deliberately target aid workers and hospitals. They threaten Syrian freedom fighters trained by the U.S. They are allied with our enemies in the Middle East and trying to weaken our friendships there.

I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.

I can't discuss the possibility of the U.S. involvement in Syria's civil war without also talking about Benghazi.

The Syrian rebels, weakened by infighting, have also been victims of the growing rift between the U.S. and its closest Arab allies.

I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.'

On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest the theft of their presidential election in June 2009, President Obama was silent for 11 days.

In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.

We haven't been out in many of these countries helping them build infrastructure. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that, rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?

Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.

The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.

By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism.

I don’t like genocide, but I would not commit our troops [to stop it.]

When did the American people decide that U. S. foreign policy should be conducted through the United Nations.

A U.S. invasion of Iraq could turn the whole region into a cauldron, and thus destroy the war on terrorism. A military campaign very likely would have to be followed by a large-scale, long-term military occupation.

The occupation of Iraq is completely self-perpetuating: The worse things get the more we are obliged to stay. And the longer we stay the worse things get.

The Syrian people deserve much more than complicit silence, or timid criticism from those who have failed to refer the regime to the International Criminal Court despite acknowledgement if its crimes.

…allies such as Bahrain are liable to use their American made weapons against their own people.