I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

Don't take 'no' for an answer.

I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.