Bob Barr Quotes

I could have been very popular if I had launched a military attack on Iran but I chose patience.

Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.

Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

The West will have to choose: either to come to terms with Russians, or to receive a retaliatory blow. This retaliatory blow will not be by means of war. We will resort to the same weapon: nationalism.

I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

History will show that perhaps we did not think through the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad. But here we are.

Local conflicts can have global consequences.

It’s damn easy to get into a war, but damned harder to extricate yourself once you get in.

In Washington the semantics of the military muted the reality of war for the civilian policy-makers. In quiet, air-conditioned, thick-carpeted rooms, such terms as 'systematic pressure,' 'armed reconnaissance,' 'targets of opportunity,' and even 'body count' seemed to breed a sort of games-theory detachment.

War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

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

The conflict in the Middle East is complex, multi-faceted, and unlikely to be resolved anytime soon.

Syria is still the foundation of the axis of evil, and I'm not sure it's appropriate to transfer Israel's northern front to the axis of evil.

We do not want war with Iran.

By the time the United States went to war with Afghanistan in the fall of 2001, I had made three trips to the country. I covered the fall of the Taliban in Kandahar and have been returning routinely for the past 14 years.

Iraq is not about oil.

This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.