Quotes About Conflict

He sent in a conventional force, admittedly just a few men from the Tenth Mountain Division. It reminded all that there were never enough SOF. Airpower had killed effectively in Qala-i-Jangi. After all the hammering, though, people had to go in on the ground with rifles, grenades, and guts. To control dirt and the societies that lived on it, you had to use live, trained, disciplined humans, and more than a few.

The U.S. troops joked that ISAF stood for "I Suck at Fighting," "I Saw Americans Fighting," or "I Sunbathe at FOBs [forward operating bases].

Terrorizing you," he proclaimed, "while you are carrying arms on our land, is a legitimate and morally demanded duty.

Afghanistan. Jarrah

America's innate uneasiness with death from above. It ill accords with the values of a democratic republic.

The last soldier killed, Specialist David E. Hickman of the Second Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry, died in an IED strike in Baghdad on November 14, 2011.

The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do.

Il trattato di Versailles ha prodotto dei tedeschi vessati che hanno prodotto degli ebrei erranti che fabbricano dei palestinesi erranti che fabbricano delle vedove erranti incinte dei vendicatori di domani...

les profs ne sont pas préparés à la collision entre le savoir et l'ignorance, voilà tout ! (p. 290)

He left out that he did not simply go to war--he had to be dragged kicking and screaming. He said that it was not that he was afraid--just that seeming to agree with such a thing would suggest one hadn't given it any thought.

We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

America could leave the Middle East, thought Gabriel, but the Middle East would follow it home.

Sometimes it is better to give an opponent a small victory then suffer a devastating defeat yourself. Gabriel Allon

The civilized world has abandoned us to our fate. We would never have come back to this land if we weren't pushed here by the hatred of Europe's Christians, and now that we're here, they won't let us fight, lest we antagonize the Arabs in their midst.

She helped Shamron into his jacket and kissed his cheek. There was simple ritual in this act. How many times had he separated from his wife after hearing that Jews had been killed by a bomb? He had lost count long ago. He had resigned himself, late in life, that it would never end.

Civility is for divorced couples with children. – Chiara

I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps. SALADIN

A veces un terrorista vivo es más útil que un terrorista muerto.

An American air strike ended Zarqawi's life in June 2006, and by the end of the decade al-Qaeda in Iraq had been decimated. But in 2011 two events conspired to revive its fortunes: the outbreak of civil war in Syria and the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Iraq. Now known as ISIS, the group rose from the ashes and rushed into the power vacuum along the Syria–Iraq border.

What's your point?" "My point is that revenge is good. Revenge is healthy. Revenge is purifying." "Revenge only leads to more killing and more revenge. For every terrorist we kill, there's another boy waiting to step forward and pick up the stone or the gun. They're like sharks' teeth: break one and another will rise in its place.

We have to change, Rafiq." "Islam is the answer!" "Islam is the problem, habibi.

SI is Samuel Isakowitz, my father." Isherwood's voice choked with tears. "This painting was taken from my father's gallery on the rue de la Boétie in Paris by the Nazis in June of 1940." "You're certain?" Anna asked. "I'd stake my life on it." "Then please accept it, along with the deepest apologies of the Rolfe family." Then she kissed his cheek and said, "I'm so sorry, Mr. Isherwood.

Aquilo ali são balas. Cinquenta milhões delas, para ser exacto. O suficiente para matar uma grande porção do Terceiro Mundo. Mas não há grandes probabilidades disso. O típico combatente da liberdade não é muito disciplinado. Não nos queixamos. É bom para o negócio".

Não sabia o que o seu amigo Adrian Carter estava a dizer ao lendário assassino israelita. Mas tinha a certeza de uma coisa. Iria jorrar sangue. E homens iriam morrer.