Coup Quote by Elliott Abrams Download Open image “Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported.” — Elliott Abrams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Coup Military Power States Supported Took United United states
The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to cast their lot with us,… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Our military leaders don't seize power in coups; our soldiers and sailors don't go on strike for higher pay or benefits; our armed forces… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cash into France and Italy after World… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti - France and the United States - combined to back a military coup and send… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Finally, they began to investigate the prime minister, Harold Wilson. Wilson, Wright was convinced, was a KGB agent.” I’m nodding along like a metronome… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“The goal of covert operations was often regime change. This meant overthrowing the current government and replacing it with one that leaders at the… — Hourly History Copy Share Image
We had the courage to face the superpowers that wanted a military triumph for each side they supported in Central America. We told them,… — Óscar Arias Copy Share Image
“Ranked seventeenth in the table of world military strengths in 1939, the United States was now primus inter pares, with an all-American military, economic,… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
In the past, a blow to the international system's strongest power would have been welcomed by its rivals. In the wake of September 11,… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Israel and the Palestinians had been at the table together for decades until the Obama/Mitchell/Rahm Emanuel decision to demand a total end to Israeli… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The Egyptian military and the government of Israel have long had a common interest in maintaining order and fighting terrorism in Sinai. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
More than ever, Romania now needs to see that a force exists that puts an end to Ponta and Antonescu's abuses and coup d'etat.… — Traian Basescu Copy Share Image
When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can't help wondering if the day may… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
On a Tuesday, September 11th, 1973, we had the military coup in Chile that forced me to leave my country eventually. And then, on… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
A lot of organizers tell me that while they are making signs or doing whatever they do, they are listening to the Coup. — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
Even if, at the helm of the country there are people who would like to replace me and suppress me and oppress me at… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to… — Kamisese Mara Copy Share Image
Ever since Justin Trudeau tried to grant himself king-like powers at the beginning of the COVID crisis, what we have been witnessing in Canada… — Leslyn Lewis Copy Share Image
This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is. — Fay Vincent Copy Share Image
Im a maximalist, so Im probably not very elegant. My art is not a coup de grce. Its a war of attrition. — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
