Tim Ryan Quotes
I am Irish, so I do like a good fight every now and then.
Ryan, Tim. Interview with Joe Scarborough. Morning Joe, MSNBC, 17 Nov. 2016.
While this was a common attitude for years before, the horrors of World War II produced a general revulsion to war and an awareness that war between two nations spills over to other states in the region and in an era of globalization, effects countries in other parts of the world. So there has been a tendency to use diplomacy endlessly, even after "things have gone too far". Historically, when things reached that point, the parties did fight it out, and when one was weakened sufficiently, negotiations and diplomacy could then be fruitful.
TR was then a Lieutenant Colonel and the regiment he organized was an unusual combination of Ivy League College men, cowboys from the West, and Black Buffalo Soldiers.
Timothy John Ryan is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Ohio's 13th congressional district, elected in 2002. The district, numbered as the 17th district from 2003 to 2013, takes in a large swath of northeast Ohio, from Youngstown to Akron. Ryan is a member of the Democratic Party.