Actually Quote by Ulrich Beck

So - our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon us, both as a potent preventive of actual…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Anything Can Happen, on the other hand, is not only about the atrociousness of the September 11 attack, it is also a premonition of…

— Seamus Heaney

Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

— Jalal Talabani

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take…

— Edward Kennedy

In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position…

— James Longstreet

After the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the Obama administration steadfastly refused to say which element of the U.S. military had participated in the…

— Ben Shapiro

An overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world.

— Ellen Tauscher

Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up strength and will along with buildings, and the reaction…

— Caroline Knapp

I think there was an overemphasis in the early stage on militarization rather than directly providing relief. I don't think it has any long-term…

— Noam Chomsky

The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

This [a surprise attack] is an operation by no means to be despised in war, although it is rare, and less brilliant than a…

— Antoine-Henri Jomini

In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

— Ulrich Beck