Anthony H. Cordesman Quotes
There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.
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We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
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It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
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What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by doing so, introduce into our defense vulnerabilities based on self-delusion.
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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
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Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
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I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.
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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.
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I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.
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Although I voted against the initial resolution approving the war in Iraq, I have consistently voted to support our troops with much-needed armor and supplies.
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Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon.
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War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
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We did not think that Nasser wanted war. The two divisions he sent to Sinai on May 14 would not have been sufficient to launch an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it.
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Some men want war for sordid, others for idealistic, reasons; some for personal gain, others for impersonal principle. But most of those who consciously want war and accept it, and so help to create its 'inevitability,' want it in order to shift the locus of their problems.
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At what point do you say, ‘Enough is enough’? Well, the world has to say it - remember that the Sudetenland was given in an attempt to appease Hitler to prevent World War II.
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Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.
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Cursed be he above all othersWho's enslaved by love of money.Money takes the place of brothers,Money takes the place of parents.Money brings us war and slaughter.
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Sometimes we try to justify this unsavory business on the cynical ground that by rationing out the means of violence we can somehow control the world’s violence. The fact is that we cannot have it both ways. Can we be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war?
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We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era.
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From all the years that I've been in the business, you know that ballads are what impact. Mid-tempos are great, you can sell some records on 'em, but when it comes down to it, ballads are the meat-and-potatoes on the album.
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I did meet 'The Everly Brothers' once, and we talked for awhile. Then we figured out we were first cousins! My late mother was the sister of Don and Phil's father, Ike Everly.
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In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.
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Later, when we were forced to accept the fact that finding gold was really the primary object of a gold-mining company, we still remained there
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There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.
