Obama makes his approach to starting war sound reasonable and considered in the Philippines
Tue 12:05 am +00:00, 29 Apr 2014 1—”Why is it that everybody is so eager to use military force
after we’ve just gone through a decade of war at enormous
costs to our troops and to our budget? And what is it exactly
that these critics think would have been accomplished?”
—”My job as commander in chief is to deploy military force
as a last resort, and to deploy it wisely. And, frankly, most of
the foreign policy commentators that have questioned our
policies would go headlong into a bunch of military
adventures that the American people had no interest in
participating in and would not advance our core security
interests.”
—”I would note that those who criticize our foreign policy with
respect to Syria, they themselves say, ‘No, no, no, we don’t
mean sending in troops.’ Well, what do you mean? ‘Well, you
should be assisting the opposition.’ Well, we’re assisting the
opposition. What else do you mean? ‘Well, perhaps you
should have taken a strike in Syria to get chemical weapons
out of Syria.’ Well, it turns out we’re getting chemical
weapons out of Syria without having initiated a strike. So
what else are you talking about? And at that point it kind of
trails off.”
—”Do people actually think that somehow us sending some
additional arms into Ukraine could potentially deter the
Russian army? Or are we more likely to deter them by
applying the sort of international pressure, diplomatic
pressure and economic pressure that we’re applying?”
—”The point is that for some reason many who were
proponents of what I consider to be a disastrous decision to
go into Iraq haven’t really learned the lesson of the last
decade, and they keep on just playing the same note over
and over again.”
—”But we can continue to speak out clearly about what we
believe. Where we can make a difference using all the tools
we’ve got in the toolkit, well, we should do so. And if there
are occasions where targeted, clear actions can be taken
that would make a difference, then we should take them. We
don’t do them because somebody sitting in an office in
Washington or New York think it would look strong. … And
that may not always be sexy. That may not always attract a
lot of attention, and it doesn’t make for good argument on
Sunday morning shows. But it avoids errors. You hit singles,
you hit doubles; every once in a while we may be able to hit
a home run. But we steadily advance the interests of the
American people and our partnership with folks around the
world.”
By Contrast; Quotes by Hermann Göring
Interview in Göring’s cell (3 January 1946)
Göring: Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood.
But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.
Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.
Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.
Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
My measures will not be crippled by any bureaucracy. Here I don’t have to worry about Justice; my mission is only to destroy and to exterminate; nothing more.
Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.
Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you.
After the United States gobbled up California and half of Mexico, and we were stripped down to nothing, territorial expansion suddenly becomes a crime. It’s been going on for centuries, and it will still go on.
The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.
We will go down in history either as the world’s greatest statesmen or its worst villains.
Kind regards,
Gordon.
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“My job as commander in chief”.Bullsh*t you tosser.You’re about as important as the White House
toilet cleaner.”using all the tools we’ve got in the toolkit”
Got that US soldiers?.You’re not people,you’re a TOOLKIT.