Elliott Abrams: “I do not think the sanctions alone are going to have that impact.”

this terrible death of Taylor Force is what really got people to stand up and say, wait a minute, now we understand it, and it is intolerable.

This notion that, well, we cannot do this because there will be disorder in the West Bank or the Palestinian Authority would collapse, I think it is a reasonable concern, but it is not going to happen.

If we are trying to strengthen the Sunni or Druze or Christian influence inside Lebanon against Hezbollah, we are failing.

He keeps doing it because he never pays a price for doing it.