So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people.
ADAM SCHIFFSo let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people.
ADAM SCHIFFThen the small amount of forces that we would have left there might have slowed this day, but they wouldn’t have prevented it altogether.
ADAM SCHIFFBut it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.
ADAM SCHIFFIf they exist, Congress needs to get them. If they’re not provided willingly, Congress should subpoena them.
ADAM SCHIFFI think that policy is changing, should change and will change.
ADAM SCHIFFI think Hillary Clinton is right. I think it isn’t enough to leave [Bashir] Assad in place, because as long as he is there, there is going to be a recruiting magnet for ISIS.
ADAM SCHIFFAnd in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies – we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.
ADAM SCHIFFEuphemisms, vague terminology or calls for discussions with Turkey to get at the truth are just some of the dodges Congress and the administration have used to avoid Turkish discomfort with its Ottoman past.
ADAM SCHIFFNo other nation can do that the way we can, and it’s going to be very hard for Congress to do it over his opposition.
ADAM SCHIFFThat first justification given, again, the White House misleading the country about a major action the administration was taking, but the fact that they had a private conversation in which the president,
ADAM SCHIFFIf giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?
ADAM SCHIFFAn America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.
ADAM SCHIFFI think what we are confronting now is a new war of ideas. It’s not communism versus capitalism, but it is authoritarianism versus democracy and representative government.
ADAM SCHIFFToo much under the thumb of the Iranians.
ADAM SCHIFFThat bomb that took down that Russian airliner may have been the size of a soda can. And that bomb killed more people than all the Paris attackers combined. So this is still a grave threat.
ADAM SCHIFFI think Barack Obama has the overall right strategy and he’s been right to resist bringing in massive numbers of American troops.
ADAM SCHIFF