Bill Kristol and Jamie Fly on bombing Iran:
Yet if we carried out a targeted campaign against Iran's nuclear facilities, against sites used to train and equip militants killing American soldiers, and against certain targeted terror-supporting and nuclear-enabling regime elements, the effects are just as likely to be limited.
Kristol on Iraq, 2002:
And, as in Kabul but also as in the Kurdish and Shi'ite regions of Iraq in 1991, American and alliance forces will be welcomed in Baghdad as liberators.
Kristol on the likely effect of the Iraq War on diplomacy in the Middle East, 2003:
Look, if we free the people of Iraq we will be respected in the Arab world.
Kristol on Iraq and Afghanistan, 2003:
We committed ourselves to reshaping the Middle East, so the region would no longer be a hotbed of terrorism, extremism, anti-Americanism, and weapons of mass destruction. The first two battles of this new era are now over. The battles of Afghanistan and Iraq have been won decisively and honorably.
Kristol on sectarianism in Iraq, 2003:
"There's been a certain amount of pop sociology in America ... that the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all.
Bombing Iran, what could go wrong?
-- A. Serwer
