Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.
There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes all of us defending the United States of America.
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority just cause right motive.
To hold a pen is to be at war.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
Another term for preventive war is aggressive war – starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
Every war when it comes or before it comes is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.
