Quotes by Flynt Leverett

“Its not a good path we are on right now. You have a situation now in which one or two things will happen, and both of them are bad.”

“Its an undeclared posture of regime change on the cheap.”

“As long as [the family members] are not trying to act against him, it will be hard to pull off a successful coup. That doesnt mean people may not try, but itd be hard to pull off as long as theyre in his corner.”

“For the first term of his presidency, the Bush administration had a long list of complaints about Syria that got longer after Iraq.”

“Since the second term started, I think theyve been moving toward an undeclared policy of regime change, as long as it doesnt require too much effort by the United States. Its regime change on the cheap.”

“There is now more energy behind the diplomacy than was usually the case in the first term.”

“We can define a target set that we want to take out in the name of delaying Irans nuclear development, and were perfectly capable of taking out that target set.”

“No one at a senior level was willing to push Iran on diplomacy. Was there at least a chance that we could have gotten something going? Yes, there was a chance.”