Anders Fogh Rasmussen Quotes

I believe sincerely that we should bring in U.N. peacekeepers and bring our troops home.

One war at a time.

Let's be clear: Neither Secretary Powell or I opposed the notion of removing Saddam Hussein by force, but we wanted to avoid the war if we could. But if we couldn't, the notion of removing Saddam Hussein from the scene seemed eminently sensible, given that you had, what, 16 or so U.N. Security Council resolutions basically saying the same thing.

It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.

We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.

It is wrong to say the U.S. should 'not take sides' in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.

I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

We are running out of time. We need a strategy to win in Iraq or an exit strategy to leave.

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

It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.

I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.

I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991.

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

It's not easy being the world's policeman. No one thanks you for it.

Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.

The question was never whether the United States, E.U., NATO, Arab League, U.N. Security Council, and African Union could together using economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, and military attacks to bring Qaddafi down. The question was always how much time, how much blood, and what damage to NATO.

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

My mission was to save Rwanda. Their mission was to put on a show with no risk.

Today, member states have asked U. N. forces to go where they have not wanted their own soldiers to venture.

I don’t like genocide, but I would not commit our troops [to stop it.]

Only external authority—the United Nations—can bring about the necessary arrangements to prevent both communities from killing one another.