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Terrorism has essentially become a franchise in the Middle East and North Africa and increasingly in other parts of the world.
I think we've got to understand the complexity of the world that we are facing and no place is more so than in the Middle East.
Our safety requires a long-term military presence in the Middle East because that's where the plans to attack us are emanating.
One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.
I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out of me.
We call for a new kind of offensive in the Middle East because our current approach has a track record and it's not a good one.
Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That's a lot less ironic if you're a political prisoner in the Middle East.
I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant impact.
We need to keep an eye on influences from the Middle East or, let's say, indigenous groups, that might be involved in terrorism.
I think everybody realizes some things went wrong in the Middle East and that most of the terrorism is emanating from that area.
Our inaction created the opportunity for the Russians to reenter the Middle East in a powerful way for the first time since 1973.
Belarus is not the Middle East. The policies of Belarussian and Middle Eastern leaders are cardinally different from one another.
[There is only one possible solution to unrest in the Middle East], namely the annihilation and destruction of the Zionist state.
Bin Laden's role in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s had made him a hero around the Middle East.
In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.
I know that Britain and the United States and others ship arms in the Middle East, 10 or maybe 100 times more than the Russian does.
Those looking from Europe see Turkey as an economic success, whereas others from the Middle East see Turkey as a democratic success.
I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
Being from the Middle East paired with my upbringing in the United States had pretty polarising effects on the way I perceive beauty.
General George Patton, General Douglas MacArthur are spinning in their grave at the stupidity of what we're doing in the Middle East.
For years, the West supported Mubarak and gave aid for what it hoped was stability - but was actually stagnation - in the Middle East.
Israel serves as America's most reliable strategic partner in the Middle East and supports U.S. regional and global policy objectives.
Criticism of the Middle East should not be directed only at Saudi Arabia. Human rights abuses are happening throughout the Arab world.
You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.
As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.
This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.
As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives.
What a war in Iraq will not do is bring about peace in the Middle East or end the injustices that feed resentment and breed terrorists.
Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks.
It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.
The Western planners are definitely trying to fragment the entire Middle East. They already have done, on several historical occasions.
Investment in education and economic prosperity is the best way to cure fanaticism and for establishing a just peace in the Middle East.
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
I had the privilege of serving in uniform with British forces in Cold War Europe, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the greater Middle East.
As far as the Middle East and North Africa is concerned, we need to reconsider the question of reliability and stability of hydrocarbons.
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.
You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.
Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad.
Russia, their number one client in the Middle East is Syria; that is their foothold in the Middle East. They want to have influence there.
The European Tour plays all over the world: from the U.K. to China, from Korea to South Africa, and from the Middle East to southeast Asia.
What is the one country in the Middle East that has not been attacked by ISIS? One. That is Iran. That is more than happenstance, I'm sure.
Ramadan typically brings a spike in violence in Middle East. I get grumpy when I don't eat - but I don't blow things up. Religion of peace?
When Canada works to counter extremism and terrorism, particularly in the Middle East, Israel is always a natural partner and a close ally.
Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.
The truth is, about the Middle East is, had there been no oil there, it would be like Africa. Nobody is threatening to intervene in Africa.
As a woman, you don't have really much freedom of choice in the Middle East - very often, by the time they are 13 or 14, girls get married.
What we need to do with respect to the Middle East is strong, steady leadership, not wrong and reckless leadership that is all over the map.
Religions themselves are... peace-loving. They can also be a constructive force in peace-building, and this also applies to the Middle East.
The Middle East and South Asia have a lot less in common with America than 18-year-old kids in Boston have with 18-year-old kids in Arkansas.
For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.