Ian Lustick Quotes

9/11 was a gamechanger in so many terrible ways, not just for the United States and for our own national security apparatus but for the whole world. And those attacks blew apart any notion of separation between foreign and domestic threats, any notion that such attacks only happen to other people in other countries.

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.

Here's the reality: There is always a credible threat, and terror can strike at any time, anywhere, especially as lone wolf attacks backed up by Islamic ideology become more prevalent.

Global terror does not respect national boundaries.

We must be certain that we all realize that our enemy is not an enemy that is located in one single place. There are terrorist cells all around the globe.

It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. We know the terrorists are barbaric and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case.

But as I often say, terrorists won't check our party registration before they blow us up.

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as more recent attacks in Madrid, Spain, and London, England, showed in a very tragic way just how vulnerable many areas of the world are to these sorts of actions.

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

Given its Internet sophistication and the attraction the group has with vast numbers of potential recruits from among disaffected populations around the globe, ISIS has the realistic potential to eventually swell its ranks of jihadists waging a 'holy war' to hundreds of thousands in both the western and eastern hemispheres.

There is no doubt something has happened that is lasting in terms of attractiveness of the nightmare that is the Islamic State.

Terrorism and religious extremism are huge challenges. They go hand in glove.

Radical Islamic terrorists and those who fund it remain a credible threat to America and a clear and present danger to democracy.

We're facing an enemy today in the Islamic State that knows no national boundaries. It doesn't have a moral code of conduct.

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.

What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.

Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.

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

If it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist, right?

We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.

International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.

We still lack a global definition of terrorism.

Al-Qaida is a worldwide organization. It's a continuous threat.

The Boston Marathon bombings in April 2013 remind us that the terrorist threat against the United States remains persistent. The threat from homegrown violent extremists is of particular concern. These individuals present unique challenges because they do not share a typical profile; their experiences and motives are often distinct and personal.

We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.