John McDonnell Quotes

Today's terrorists can strike at any place, at any time, and with virtually any weapon

I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.

In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities.

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

In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and our allies.

After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?

I don't think that the war serves U.S. interests. I think Osama bin Laden's interests and the Iranian interests are very much served by it, and it's becoming a huge drain on our resources both material and political.

They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.

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.

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.

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

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.

We have not yet, as a nation, made a generation-long commitment to this terrorist threat.

This War on Terror has no boundaries …. We have to get them wherever they are.

The initial [Iraq] war was won in about 6 weeks, but the peace was lost soon thereafter.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

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.

American wars in Muslim countries created some extremists and inflamed many more while producing a security vacuum that allowed them to wreak mayhem.

One outcome is almost certain. Extremism stands to benefit enormously from an uncalculated adventure in Iraq.

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.

The President reminded us that the war in Iraq is a central battlefield in the war on terror that began the morning of September the 11th.

We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.

What is happening in the Sahel for the past several months is that terrorists have structured themselves, have installed themselves. It's not simply a menace for west Africa.

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

Osama bin Laden is going after us to get us out of the region, so he can deal with the regimes that he sees in the region, or replace them with purists.