Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror. Votes: 1
As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world. Votes: 1
We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees, Volkswagen corruption, dysfunctional government. Yet that reflects a selection bias in how we report the news: We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off. Votes: 1
You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter. Votes: 1
Regarding fighting terrorism, we are ready to cooperate with anyone in this world with no conditions. That's crux of our policy, not today, not yesterday; for years, even before the war on Syria, we always said that.
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria. Votes: 9 Henry A. Kissinger
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Votes: 11 Albert Einstein