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Anthony Zinni

(1943) Military Officer

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Anthony Zinni is a military officer.

Quick Facts About Anthony Zinni

Born: September 17, 1943
Profession: Military Officer

About Anthony Zinni

[Wikidata] American Marine Corps general... | [Wikipedia] Anthony Charles Zinni is a retired United States Marine Corps general and a former Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM). From 2001 to 2003, he served as a special envoy for the United States to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. From 2017 to 2019, he served as a speci

Quotes by Anthony Zinni

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility,…

Corruption

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We will pay for this [climate change] one way or another. We will pay to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions today and we'll have…

Change

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Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit.

Building

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I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have…

Building

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I think the Mogadishu effect, if I had to define it, is we need to be more careful where we decide to…

Careful

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If you put two brigades on the ground right now with U.S. forces, they would push ISIS back into Syria in a…

Force

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You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have…

Deals

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I think it's (Israeli pressure for invading Iraq) the worst kept secret in Washington, everybody I talked to in Washington has known…

Agendas

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The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.

International

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Yet, here we are, long and difficult years into that conflict," ... "we still have not created the state we promised them.…

Anarchy

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