Walid Jumblatt Quotes

ISIL is more threatening to the Muslim world than it is to western civilization.

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

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

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.

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

Basically, Islamic State is a combined al Qaeda and Lebanese Hezbollah on steroids, destabilizing the region, dissolving borders/changing the political geography in the Mid-east, and hardening political positions that make Mid-east peace-building more remote by the day.

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

The War on Terror is not a war we started, it's a war we must finish, and it's tough when your enemies are psychopaths and your allies are the French.

Adding to your list of enemies is never a sound strategy, yet ISIS' ferocious campaign against the Shia, Kurds, Yazidis, Christians, and Muslims who don't precisely share its views has united every ethnic and religious group in Syria and Iraq against them.

The fact is, the Middle East has been going crazy for 50, 60, 70 years. So it's not like, 'Oh, I need an ISIS joke.'

The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other deeper problems.

The deep problems that afflict the Middle East are not easy to fix, but they must be dealt with if we are not to see a son of ISIS, or even a grandson of ISIS, developing in the years to come.

ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.

If Hamas were destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse. The region would end up with something much worse.

Without U.S. forces in the country, there is a strong possibility Afghanistan could host a reinvigorated Taliban allied to a reinvigorated al Qaeda.

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

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

The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.

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 are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.

Al Qaeda still remains a threat.

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

For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.

Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.