‘The very few actions the President has taken with regard to Syria have actually made matters worse’

"The West should acknowledge that a ground deployment of sorts is, ultimately, the only way to quash IS"

"Terrorism is first and foremost a problem of public security. But its defeat can only emerge from a battle of ideas against its ideological underpinnings"

‘Europe must force Iran to rethink its support for Assad, the main cause of Syrian misery and the migration crisis’