Pierre Salinger Quotes

We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11.

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.

The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?

After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.

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 Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.

The fate of Syria hangs in the balance, but it is entirely possible that the fall of the Assad regime will result in anarchy and cause Syria to turn into a second Afghanistan, a base for anti-Israel terrorism.

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.

President Bashar Assad's regime is in the unique position of being targeted both by Israel and supporters of al Qaeda.

It is all too evident that our nation, and the governments of other countries, require all the help they can get in order to fight the War on Terrorism against people who have no qualms about taking the lives of innocent men, women, and children.

I want the American people to understand, we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

I know the pain of having to deal with terrorism. And that's why, after 9-11, I was one of the first to join the international coalition to fight terrorism.

After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called 'peace dividend.' As a result, we ignored the toxic mixture of militant Islam and terror that ultimately led to 9/11.

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

Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive.

The Middle East conflict has become the locus of the final war between Muslims and the West

Civil wars tend to spread to neighboring countries. That’s what history shows.

There is the regional rivalry between Saudi and Iran that is getting more and more dangerous, leading to proxy wars. There is the need for recognition of Israel's borders.

The rise of ISIS starts with a Jordanian thug named Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who founded ISIS' parent organization, al Qaeda, in Iraq. What gave Zarqawi the opportunity to create al Qaeda in Iraq? It was, of course, George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003.

GTMO has been a goldmine of intelligence about radical Islamic terrorism.

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

The more the Iranians are seen to be dominating the region, the more it is going to inflame Sunni radicalism and fuel the rise of groups like the Islamic State.

The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.