Russia is not going to give up easily on Syria. They've had a relationship with that country since 1955. It's very close to them.
Rashid KhalidiA lot of Muslims, a lot of Arab Americans, Muslim Americans were very attracted to the Republican Party - conservative social values and so on. But Trump has horrified them.
Rashid KhalidiHillary Clinton made no outreach to Muslim Americans or Arab Americans. So they have to insert themselves.
Rashid KhalidiThere's absolutely no reason for NATO to be sticking its fingers up the nostrils of Russia at every orifice. I mean, it's absurd. It's absolutely absurd.
Rashid KhalidiI am deeply concerned about the kind of people Hillary Clinton's surrounded herself with in the past.
Rashid KhalidiRussia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme.
Rashid KhalidiWe have an even worse situation in Syria, where the United States' allies are actually supporting people who are violently opposed to the United States, who are dangerous, radical Islamist fanatics. I mean, where is the logic of that? When are we going to call the Saudis on the support of intolerant, bigoted, fanatical types of Islam? When are we going to call this ally?
Rashid KhalidiYou want to bring the Assad regime down? You have to beat the Russians and the Iranians in Syria. That is not going to happen. Like it, don't like it - it's not going to be very pleasant.
Rashid KhalidiI don't know what would happen in a Trump administration, as far as how he would behave.
Rashid KhalidiPresident Bush Sr. and Secretary Baker, way back when, told Gorbachev, "We are not going to advance NATO into Eastern Europe. We're not going to - we're not going to advance NATO into East Germany, if you allow the unification of Germany." Where is that pledge? Where is the logic behind a military alliance, devised in the time of communism, before the Berlin Wall fell, now being in the Ukraine, in Poland, in Estonia, in Latvia and Lithuania? I don't understand.
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