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War Quotes by Henry A. Kissinger
- What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.
- If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
- They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating…
- We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process…
- Administration has managed the extraordinary feat of having, at one and the same time, the worst relations with our allies, the worst relations with our…
- One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land. What we have now would…
- I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war itself became controversial…
- We believe that peace is at hand.
- You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
- No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
- The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And…
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