Going to war against Iran – whether one calls such a move ‘surgical’ or ‘total’ – would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term. – Bob Barr
Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan. – Benazir Bhutto
As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems. – Barbara Ehrenreich
In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it. – Noam Chomsky
Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war. – Noam Chomsky
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. – Niccolo Machiavelli
You have a bunch of bad hombres down there. You aren’t doing enough to stop them. I think your military is scared. Our military isn’t, so I might just send them down to take care of it. – Donald Trump Talking to the Mexican president.
I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy. – Ed Case
U.S. Government propaganda tries to give the impression that aerial bombardment achieves near-surgical accuracy, so that military targets can be destroyed with minimal effect on civilians. Technical documents give a different picture. – Noam Chomsky
One thing I’ve always liked about the military is there’s a certain amount of pragmatism. – Phil Klay
In most countries, you have a monarch or some other principal person to whom its officers and its military swear their allegiance. Our officials in this country and our military swear allegiance to the Constitution. We say that when we say the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. – Edwin Meese
Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war. – Fidel Castro
In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks. – Gijs de Vries
As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that. – Norman Schwarzkopf
I think I will be a great president having to do with the military and also having to do with taking care of our vets. – Donald Trump
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250. – Gore Vidal
I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder? – Ferdinand Marcos
The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene. – Elliott Abrams
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House. – Gore Vidal
President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: ‘I will undertake any military attack against our enemies, regardless of the risks and collateral damage, so long as it is over by the time I have to announce it.’ – Elliott Abrams
My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions. – Felicia Day
In this ever-changing world, it’s more important than ever that our top-notch military continues to receive the resources needed to serve and protect our country. – Max Baucus
I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don’t want to see any more of that. – F. Murray Abraham
If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions. – Douglas Feith
I was the only outsider to visit the Abbottabad compound where bin Laden lived before the Pakistani military demolished it. – Peter L. Bergen
Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA. – Ed Markey