Joshua Landis Quotations

In the Middle East, they're being compressed, catapulted through the same debates that tore American society over decades in a short period of time. And the stakes are very high.

Syria's in for a very dark period ahead, ... The president is in a real struggle to keep people close to him.

Syria is looking for more time. It is promising cooperation on a broad scale but has launched diplomatic contacts to try to slow things down,

It's a declaration that they're not going to cooperate.

This is an anti-America alliance. My guess is that the US will end up in a weaker position than it started. The war on terror has alienated the Muslim countries who now believe that America is the big bad ogre and specter of imperialism.

It offered a secular vision of Syria that would dismantle very serious religious splits.

The family is a red line. There's no doubt about that.

I don't know know how they're going to get Saad Hariri back home.

They worry they are the ones that are going to eat all the revenge and discrimination, if the state falls, they are going to pay the price for the privileges of a few.

They are going to grab Syria by the throat and squeeze and shake, and see what kind of change falls out of the Syrian pockets.... It's going to be the harshest isolation they can manufacture.