Michael T. Flynn - We have to face the fact that ISIS and its army

We have to face the fact that ISIS and its army of like-minded jihadists are determined to win that war and believe they are on the path to victory. They may well be right.

Topics

Citations

Flynn, Michael T., and Michael Ledeen. The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies. St. Martin's Press, 2016.

Related Quotes

Todd Tiahrt

Well, today, we are in the struggle brought on to us by the terrorists of Islam. It is a war that we did not choose. It was a war that was declared against us as Americans, against our people, against our Constitution.

John R. Allen

To ISIS and others: We will defeat you.

Bob Beckel

There is no doubt that terrorists acting under the banner of Islam have declared war on us.

Reuven Rivlin

We are not fighting against the Palestinian people, and we are not at war with Islam. We are fighting against terrorism.

Sebastian Junger

Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims, including Pakistanis. I understand that that was provocative and complicated for Pakistan, but only if you accept the idea that he was an acceptable member of Pakistani society.

Mark Kennedy

Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.

Elliott Abrams

The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise.

Chris Kyle

Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq. That's why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy 'savages.' There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.

Hamid Karzai

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

Yonah Alexander

The entire world is the front line for terrorism.

Daniel Pipes

The War on Terror is really a war on Radical Islam.

Henry Crumpton

Find Al Quaeda and Kill Them

In 9 days they had forged alliances with tribal leaders

Daniel Byman

Terrorism often finds a home in states mired in civil war …

ISIS

Isis Remains! ISIS Expands!.

In the Asymmetric Warfare the insurgent “wins” a battle by surviving even if the insurgent takes massive casualties. As long as some exist—they can recruit and expand.

Yasar Halit Cevik

You cannot fight one terrorist organization by making use of another terrorist organization.

Objecting to the United States supporting the Kurdish Peshmerga forces attacking ISIS in Syria when they were affiliated with the PKK an organization that used terror tactics to gain independence for Kurds in Turkey.