Quotes About Intervention

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

I'm a warrior if you try to hurt my family. And anybody I see getting it in the neck out there, I'm right there to protect them. I'm a big, strong guy who knows what he's doing. I've stopped a lot of things in the street, stopped a lot of people from getting hurt.

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

Hoping to garner the support of the American people, proponents of regime-change wars routinely cite humanitarian concerns to justify military intervention in foreign countries. But here is the reality: As a direct result of our intervention in Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, human suffering increased dramatically.

Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies.

Joe Biden has supported sending Americans to die in wars for 50 years, including the never-ending Iraq War.

I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.

All government wars are unjust.

Politicians do not enter into wars lightly. It is usually the military themselves who are keener to become involved.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.

If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.

The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible.

The U.S. has taken an active role in wars from Libya to the Central African Republic, sent special ops forces into countries from Somalia to South Sudan, conducted airstrikes and abduction missions, even put boots on the ground in countries where it pledged it would not.

American wars in Muslim countries created some extremists and inflamed many more while producing a security vacuum that allowed them to wreak mayhem.

Sometimes luck put a man in the right place at the right time. Sometimes, a good friend. But more often than not, Daniel mused, it was the providence of God and His never-ending grace.

So you never know when you can get through. p 179 Jack the Bus Driver talking about helping a woman on the bus who was an alcoholic

Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them. Actually, also, under the very odd conditions of Arabia, your practical work will not be as good as, perhaps, you think it is.

Whenever the Spirit intervenes, he leaves people astonished. He brings about events of amazing newness; he radically changes persons and history. This

We haven't been in Afghanistan for ten years. We've been in Afghanistan one year, ten times.

It is imperative, too, that every strategy takes into account an analysis and understanding of the global financial and economic environment marked by slower growth, increased competition, altered consumer behavior, and more government intervention.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.