#middle east

Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us. ↗

— David Hackworth

#born-again #convert #days #east #either

Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#attitude #compared #continues #could #different

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#bush #central #claim #cure #democracy

The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there. ↗

— Joe Biden

#hope #hopeful #middle #middle east

These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#elements #encourage #main #main thing #middle

The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#cannot #compromised #east #further #iranian

I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war. ↗

— George Galloway

#am #apparent #children #desire #devastating

Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#critical #east #global #increasingly #interconnected

Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice. ↗

— John McCain

#armed forces #built #conditions #east #even

The two biggest threats to international security in 2013 are Iran getting a nuclear weapon, and Iran being bombed to stop it getting a nuclear weapon. Both would precipitate a long and dangerous conflict in an already unstable Middle East. Both would be a disaster. ↗

— David Miliband

#being #biggest #bombed #both #conflict