Quotes About Military action

If we had made it clear from the very beginning that we were not going to tolerate another nuclear power on the face of the earth, and had done it in Korea, where we could have accomplished it militarily, if necessary, I would put a stop to it and would have put a stop to it there.

It's very important to follow up after the defeat of Daesh militarily. It's not in our interests, nor in the interests of other countries in the region, for them to regroup again.

Despite that commitment, the Resistance found itself stymied. Republic space and First Order space were separated by a buffer zone of neutral systems, and the peace that had been negotiated—a peace that many, including Poe, believed existed in name only—meant that military action taken by one side upon the other was considered an overt act of war. It

Military action is, of course, sometimes necessary to maintain peace. Kosovo and World War II are good examples.

The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn't led by the US, or a war waged without the necessary conviction (read collateral damage).

You have my authorization." And with those four words, spoken into a device that had probably also been used to order pizza, I initiated the first new military intervention of my presidency.

Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.

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

Military action is important to the nation -- it is the ground of death and life, the path of survival and destruction, so it is imperative to examine it.

In my view, the military action taken in Iraq in 2003 was not lawful under international law because there was no U.N. resolution expressly authorising it.

I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.

There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.

The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.

During a time of war, we ask our troops to give their best even to the point of sacrificing their own lives. When compared against that, how much of a sacrifice is it for a president to engage in a possibly contentious debate with Congress about whether military action is a good idea?

When it comes to the military, I don't want to discuss things. I want to let - I want to let the action take place before the talk takes place

Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.

I think when the president of the United States calls for military action, he should do it for a united people, especially when the methods have been so cruel, so explicitly directed at Americans.

The president of the United States, Barack Obama, deserves the benefit of the doubt and our support in his decision to use military force in Libya.

Absolute liberty of military action in time of war is an indispensable condition of military success…. It is a gratuitous illusion to suppose that modern war does not demand far more brutality, far more violence, and an action far more general than was formerly the case.

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

Have you ever met a war you didn't love? I'm asking, is there any place you don't want to intervene in?

No one shall take a military action on the Korean Peninsula without South Korean consent.