Our response has been, 'Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.' That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.
Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
I'm not the type of person that is forced.
I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
Remember you don't do anything in isolation.
We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
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.
I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
