Military Action Quotes

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  Un verdadero líder tiene la confianza necesaria para valerse por sí mismo, el valor para tomar decisiones difíciles y la compasión para escuchar las necesidades de los demás. No se propone ser un líder, sino que se convierte en uno por la igualdad de sus acciones y la integridad de su intención.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspiración, Liderazgo, Confianza

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• Incluso las acciones militares limitadas acaban acarreando grandes costes y consecuencias imprevistas.

  Barack Obama

  Militar, Coste, Acción

  Entrevista con Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. 10 de agosto de 2015.

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• Having strength, having a strong military, is the ally of peace. Exercising that strength through military action is not always necessary if you have the confidence and clarity of vision and purpose which America demands.

  Mitt Romney

  Strong, Military, Exercise

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• Military action without politics is like a tree without a root.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Military, Roots, Tree

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• Declarations of war have never been a constitutional requirement for military action abroad.

  John Yoo

  Military, War, Requirements

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, United States, Action

  "Chomsky: Instead of “Illegal” Threat to Syria, U.S. Should Back Chemical Weapons Ban in All Nations". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 11, 2013.

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• It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.

  Jessica Lange

  Military, Iraq, United States

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• Ningún candidato puede ganar unas elecciones presidenciales defendiendo el matrimonio homosexual y oponiéndose a la acción militar en Irak.

  Dick Morris

  Militar, Orgullo, Gay

  "Dean es una fuerza motriz para ahuyentar a los fieles". Dick Morris, The Daily Courier, 31 th Of July de 2003.

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• 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 J. Feith

  Military, Night, Israel

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• It is the duty of any president, in the final analysis, to defend this nation and dispel the security threat. Saddam Hussein has brought military action upon himself by refusing for 12 years to comply with the mandates of the United Nations. The brave and capable men and women of our armed forces and those who are with us will quickly, I know, remove him once and for all as a threat to his neighbors, to the world, and to his own people, and I support their doing so.

  John F. Kerry

  Military, Men, Years

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• The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. ... The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.

  Scott Ritter

  Military, War, Tools

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• There was in the House only one dissenting vote, from Barbara J. Lee, a Democrat from California, who warned that military action could not guarantee the safety of the country and that 'as we act, let us not become the evil we deplore.

  Chris Hedges

  Country, Military, California

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.5, PublicAffairs

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• So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

  Barack Obama

  Military, America, Cost

  Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on Libya, National Defense University, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 28, 2011.

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• America must always lead on the world stage. If we don't, no one else will. The military that you have joined is, and always will be, the backbone of that leadership. But U.S. military action cannot be the only - or even primary - component of our leadership in every instance. Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

  Barack Obama

  Graduation, Military, Mean

  Remarks by the President at the United States Military Academy Commencement Ceremony, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 28, 2014.

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• There are some militarists who say: ‘We are not interested in politics but only in the profession of arms.’ It is vital that these simple-minded militarists be made to realize the relationship that exists between politics and military affairs. Military action is a method used to attain a political goal. While military affairs and political affairs are not identical, it is impossible to isolate one from the other.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Simple, Goal

  "On Guerrilla Warfare".

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• Llevará tiempo erradicar un cáncer como el Isil. Y cada vez que emprendemos una acción militar, existen riesgos, especialmente para los militares que llevan a cabo estas misiones. Pero quiero que el pueblo estadounidense entienda en qué se diferencia este esfuerzo de las guerras de Irak y Afganistán. No habrá tropas de combate estadounidenses luchando en suelo extranjero.

  Barack Obama

  Cancer, Military, War

  Declaración del Presidente sobre ISIL, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. 10 de septiembre de 2014.

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• El poder aéreo puede paralizar la acción militar del enemigo u obligarle a dedicar a la defensa de sus bases y comunicaciones una parte de sus escasos recursos muy superior a la que necesitamos en el ataque.

  Winston Churchill

  Militar, Comunicación, Aire

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• If military action in Iraq is launched without a new U.N. resolution, Canada will not participate.

  Jean Chretien

  Military, Iraq, Canada

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• El historial de la Dra. Rice sobre Irak me preocupa enormemente. En sus declaraciones públicas, ha exagerado y exagerado claramente los datos de inteligencia relativos a Irak antes de la guerra, con el fin de apoyar la decisión del Presidente de iniciar una acción militar contra Irak.

  Carl Levin

  Military, War, Order

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• They [Republicans] assume that military action always shows strength, while avoiding military action always shows weakness. That's just crazy.

  Kevin Drum

  Crazy, Military, Weakness

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• Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws.

  Benjamin Carson

  Military, Economic Sanctions, Looks

  Fuente: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The real threat to U.S. military power is nuclear proliferation, because if every little country has nuclear weapons it becomes very tricky for the United States to engage in military action.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Country, Real, Military

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• Not every action requires military action. As a matter of fact, military action is the very last resort for us.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Matter, Lasts

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• A strong foundation exists for immediate military action against Saddam Hussein and for a multilateral effort to rebuild Iraq after he is gone.

  George P. Shultz

  Strong, Military, Iraq

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• El Partido Laborista británico siempre ha tenido un fuerte "componente atlantista", obsecuente con las políticas estadounidenses, y Blair representa esta ala. Está claramente obsesionado con Irak. Tiene que estarlo porque la inmensa mayoría del pueblo británico se opone a una acción militar. Nunca he conocido una situación así.

  John Pilger

  Strong, Military, Party

  Fuente: progressive.org

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