It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion – not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran’s theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president’s approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological positions, they alienated a large portion of their party’s traditional supporters, and they lost – very, very badly. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
There’s always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
At Guantanamo Bay, we could create a West Berlin, a free small city within the Communist nation that could trade freely with the U.S. and elect its own officials. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
The question was never whether the United States, E.U., NATO, Arab League, U.N. Security Council, and African Union could together using economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, and military attacks to bring Qaddafi down. The question was always how much time, how much blood, and what damage to NATO. Elliott Abrams Read Quote
