Frederick W. Kagan Quotes

We’re not occupiers. We’re liberators.

Every Army of liberation has a half-life beyond which it turns into an Army of occupation.

Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

That was one of the great successes of removing Saddam Hussein, as we took Iraq out of the picture of having a sovereign nation from which the terrorists could operate. But this war has not gone perfectly.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

Nothing is gained by military occupation. All occupations are failures.

We are forced to invade—we must keep the War South, till they are not only ruined, exhausted, but humbled in pride and spirit.

You just have to come to grips with the fact that people don't like to be invaded or bombed by anybody. And America has been engaged in that.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

We continue to resist the occupier militarily, culturally and by all means of the resistance.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here.

War is the trade of Kings.

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.

I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.