In Iraq and Afghanistan, in Georgia and the Persian Gulf…

“Apparently,they’ve decided that’s a gray zone. It could get them all burned.” Then he adds in a whisper, almost to himself, “But the fire…

— Susan Ee

Pretty much anybody who does creative work in China navigates the gray zone. People aren't clear about where the line is any more, beyond…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

— Woodrow Wilson

They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called 'war' too. And there…

— Bruce Sterling

I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a non-conventional war. It means that…

— Hugh Shelton

“My personal position on counterinsurgency in general, and on Iraq and Afghanistan in particular, could therefore be summarized as "Never again, but..." That is,…

— David Kilcullen

The American expeditionary force would easily rout the Taliban in a conventional war - which is why there would not be one. The Taliban…

— John Mearsheimer

Using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we launched roughly…

— Ted Cruz

Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in the Persian Gulf or…

— George J. Mitchell

“For her the war came suddenly closer when, on Wednesday 23rd August, she received a telephone message from the local police that the factory…

— Norman Longmate

Americans once believed that their prosperity and way of life depended on having assured access to Persian Gulf oil. Today, that is no longer…

— Andrew Bacevich

Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access…

— Al Gore

“And who but Allah could have used a fool like President Bush to remove Saddam, the man who had been the greatest obstacle to…

— Phillip Oliver Otts

The war in Iraq is a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times a new world…

— George W. Bush

Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf.

— Jan Schakowsky