Ahmed Chalabi Quotes

The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he [Saddam Hussein] is in power.

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

Al-Qaida in particular remains dangerous, and there [in Iraq] is some residual militia and special group presence. There are still between 20 and 30 attacks per day, still periodic car bombs and still loss of innocent civilians.

You listen to the intelligence community, they say, listen, maybe it's ISIS today, it's somebody else tomorrow. We'll deal with the caliphate, but it's going to take years to be able to handle this.

We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future.

Somalia is very dangerous, and no one knows that better than I.

We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

Our country was hit on 9/11, 2001. Everybody in the world knows that. It hasn't been easy to deal with a different kind of enemy, but that is what we have, a different kind of enemy.

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

We will not let Hamas undermine our security and draw our country to bloodshed.

The entire world is the front line for terrorism.

Military capability, viewed in terms of the history of its own development, has constantly been found wanting. Renewal and regeneration of military capability seems to be an indispensable part of the military doctrine, conceived to address what turns out inevitably to be the insatiable need of fear. For every level of fear addressed through a military strategy or state of readiness, a further threat comes to be conceived for which further military capability is sought.

Terrorism and peace are incompatible.

Syria is hosting the most dangerous terrorist organizations.

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.

Those are the two issues: Protecting the homeland and stopping the war and going after ISIS in a way that ends the terrorism.

Anytime ISIS takes ground, it's a bad thing.

Terrorists are everywhere and, emphatically, not only in Iraq.

ISIS was able to grow because the Obama administration stuck its head in the sand rather than address the emerging problem.

I think there are a number of issues that we should be addressing. I have put forth a plan to defeat ISIS.

When I first raised the issue of the so-called Islamic State at the Munich Security Conference in February, speaking about its economy, its flexibility and pathology, people thought I was trying to scare them. But now we have experienced just that. If al-Qaida was version 2.0 of terror, then the Islamic State is version 5.0.

At least I have a plan to fight ISIS.

It's not a world war yet, but we're at war, because ISIS has declared war on us.

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