Giora Eiland Quotes

Military force is not the first option, but it is there if needed.

You can’t take military action in war without the support of government.

Counter-terrorism is not solely a military matter.

I can do whatever is necessary to protect the United States.

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

War is the continuation of politics." In this sense war is politics and war itself is political action.... It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

People in uniform are not sacrosanct. They don't have all the answers. The use of force is a political decision at its core, in terms of its objectives; then the military, as the experts, must be brought in to tell you how to do it.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

We're not going to spread democracy at the business end of a M16 held by a 23 year old Marine.

A member of either House who joins the armed forces, must in the main be his own judge as to what is proper and appropriate. No-one can restrain a member for doing his full duty as a member of the legislature, and he is under no reproach for doing so. Of course if he offers to take active military service and is accepted this must be some restraint upon his political activities, but how much is I think, for him to say.

If we cannot secure our needs for survival on the basis of law and justice, then we must be ready to secure them with army in our hands.

The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.

The Pentagon is always going to be the last to want to intervene. It is up to the civilians to tell us what they want to do and we’ll figure out how to do it.

War is too serious a matter to be entrusted to generals.

The Democrats are the party of war.

Our military is trained to kill our enemies in foreign lands, not to do civilian law enforcement within our country.

I would be very careful about using our troops as nation builders. I believe the role of the military is to fight and win war and therefore prevent war from happening in the first place

Both Republicans and Democrats want to use our children as cannon fodder in order to police the world.

Our military structure and tactics have been designed more to protect the service interest than the national interest.

Do not know what to do. I will remain passive until I hear from you. I do not believe calling out the militia will avail anything towards restoring peace, unless they were called out in such force as to fight the Mormons & drive them from the country. This would satisfy this people, but I cannot agree to it. I hold myself ready to execute, as far as I can go, any order from you, and wish you to advise the Commander-in-Chief as to the situation of the upper country. Perhaps a visit from him would have some effect in allaying the excitement

In order to have defense here at home, we have to have offense in Iraq and Iran.

Sometimes there is no substitute for military action.

We announce, declare, ordain, and will that all the strongholds, either towns or castles, which are in the interior of our realm or provinces of the same, not situated in places of importance either for frontier defense or other considerations of weight, shall be razed and demolished; even ancient walls shall be destroyed so far as it shall be deemed necessary for the well-being and repose of our subjects and the security of this state, so that our said subjects henceforth need not fear that the said places will cause them any inconvenience, and so that we shall be freed from the expense of supporting garrisons in them