I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces.

America must listen. It must listen to the interests of others. But the US government has no interest in similarities, no matter how obvious.

I've never heard of soft war.There's no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.

Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.

We don't discuss this issue [conversations with Russia] as a government, but we discuss the repercussions, which is more important because sometimes repercussions could be more destroying than the strike itself.

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

It's not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it.