Terrorism Strategy Quotes

At the center of President Obama's strategy for dealing with the Islamic State is an empty space. It's supposed be filled by a 'Sunni ground force,' but after more than a year of effort, it's still not there. Unless this gap is filled, Obama's plan won't work.

We’ve spent more time debating what to call extremism than we have discussing a long-term strategy for defeating it. If we don’t wrestle with the long-term, every four years a different president and a different foreign minister will be facing a different terror group with a different acronym.

Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do.

Osama Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do in response to this attack 9/11. I'm sure he wanted America to attack Afghanistan. Once you do what your enemy wants, you are walking into a trap, whether you think it's the right thing to do or not.

If we're going to ban all Muslims, how are we going to get them to be part of a coalition to destroy ISIS?

But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.

ISIS has leadership, just like al Qaeda has leadership. It's important to be able to eliminate the individuals that are leading the organization.

Donald Trump can't come up with a hairstyle that looks human, how can he come up with a plan to defeat ISIS.

The "coalition against terrorism" means the United States. It does not wish anyone else to interfere with its strategy.

Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda.

I don't think you're going to be seeing the U.S. employing large army divisions to deal with small terrorist groups again. I don't think they're going to be occupying foreign nations in order to dry up terrorist groups within them. I think that lesson has been learned.

How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.

Every time we meet a new terrorist group, we argue they are utterly different and we can learn nothing from the last time. Of course they are different, but some lessons on how we deal with them seem to apply in all cases.