Ifs Quote by Dick Cheney

The insurgency began and you missed it.

— REM

The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is not in…

— Stephen Hadley

“Military strategy...has become the diplomacy of violence.”

— Thomas C. Schelling

At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.

— Paul Robeson

We don't know if our economy, our society, could support the social and the human and the economic cost of an insurgency.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

“As was easily foreseeable, the unprovoked military adventure empowered anti-American terrorists.”

— Andrew McCarthy

“Violence is Inevitable.”

— Robert Harris

“enrage them and escalate the situation? These weren’t combatants. These were frustrated civilians,”

— Luis Carlos Montalván

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

— Hamid Karzai

“I was going to ask your thoughts on the war, but if you’re too upset . .”

— Suzanne Collins

“mounting a sustained war. Unhappily, these intriguing speculations”

— Charles C. Mann

“I was unable to take the professional view that all successful actions were gains. Our rebels were not materials, like soldiers, but friends of…

— T.E.Lawrence