Quotes About Conflict

I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

The Middle East is a region where predictions go to die.

Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

The main problem that we have in Lebanon, and in the region, is we don't have a real peace process and I think this is the main focal problem that we have in the region.

Well, peace is a very expensive commodity in my country, as well as in my region.

We are safer, the region is safer, the world is safer without Saddam.

You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.

If Hamas were destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse. The region would end up with something much worse.

I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.

The historic quarrels between Japan and Korea pale in importance to the bigger question of extent of U.S. commitment to the defense of the region.

You know the Middle East is going crazy when Lebanon is the most peaceful place in the region.

I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

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

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.

The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.

The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.

In their war against Israel's existence, the Arab governments took advantage of the Cold War. They enlisted the military, economic, and political support of the communist world against Israel, and they turned a local, regional conflict into an international powder keg.

There's always been deep divisions in this country - we had a civil war - and there've been regional and cultural and demographic. They've always been there.

I would love it if we made more comparisons between current issues and issues of the past. Maybe we'd realize that sometimes 'current issues' and 'past issues' are one and the same. Our world's people still fight over natural resources, kill in the name of religion, occupy regions and give them up - just as we did 'so long ago.'

Women are hit especially hard in regions of ongoing conflict. Before, during, and after conflict, women bear the brunt of the consequences of war. They are left as the providers and guardians, responsible for rebuilding their country one family at a time.

I very much regret that our administration has pushed the whole issue of Kosovo to the back burner.

We're separated, and I regret to say that we just don't seem to hit it off. I don't know what Betty's plans are. Perhaps she plans a divorce. As far as I am concerned, that doesn't fit in with my scheme of things.