Neil Bush Quotes

Terrorism is a means/a tactic, not an ideological or defined physical enemy

Isis Remains! ISIS Expands!.

Anytime ISIS takes ground, it's a bad thing.

The real threat comes from terrorism.

I think ISIS is achieving the objectives that they have set out to achieve. I think that they feel probably very emboldened. They feel pretty good. Their resiliency is extraordinary.

The deep problems that afflict the Middle East are not easy to fix, but they must be dealt with if we are not to see a son of ISIS, or even a grandson of ISIS, developing in the years to come.

We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

Terrorists

ISIL is dangerous. They're a threat. They're a brutal, horrible force that needs to be dealt with.

ISIS is the greatest threat.

The Islamic State is using medieval tactics.

ISIS has never fought a real battle.

ISIL is a terrorist army like we have never seen - they cannot be ignored.

No doubt, the fight against ISIS is deadly serious, as was the raid that took down their elusive leader.

I don't believe ISIS is real.

You listen to the intelligence community, they say, listen, maybe it's ISIS today, it's somebody else tomorrow. We'll deal with the caliphate, but it's going to take years to be able to handle this.

If it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist, right?

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.

Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims, including Pakistanis. I understand that that was provocative and complicated for Pakistan, but only if you accept the idea that he was an acceptable member of Pakistani society.

If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.

Bottoms line: terrorists are always at work.

Al Qaeda still remains a threat.

For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.

The bombers were enemies of Islam and enemies of the country. We will do everything and anything needed to stop them.