The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because of the regime’s support for terrorism. While we maintain diplomatic relations, we do not staff our embassy there. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders – leaders not compromised by terror. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan’s Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the ‘Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,’ should go down in history with the Emperor Bokassa and Idi Amin as a grotesque reminder of why people have the right to change their government. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
The attack on the British embassy in Tehran came just days after the Iranian ‘parliament’ voted to expel the British ambassador, and therefore reeks of official complicity. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
Gadhafi’s vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
While Israelis do not care too much about Europeans moral judgments, the E.U. is an important market for them, and European sanctions of any kind would be harmful to Israel. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
