Jon Stewart Quotes

War is but an instrument of international policy.

The issue of what my role in the - in persuading the Bush administration to go to war has been greatly exaggerated.

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

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

Would it not be worthwhile to pause a moment before we commit ourselves to war at the pleasure of other nations in whose councils we shall have but one vote?

In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can you really bomb feminism into a country? And now, after 25 years of brutal war - 10 years against the Soviet occupation, 15 years of US occupation - the Taliban is riding back to Kabul and will soon be back to doing business with the United States.

I wouldn't go to war over Ukraine.

I saw Donald [Trump] saying that there were some Iranian sailors on a ship in the waters off of Iran, and they were taunting American sailors who were on a nearby ship. He said, you know, if they taunted our sailors, I'd blow them out of the water and start another war. That's not good judgment.

I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force-- if necessary-- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.

As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same.

We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.

It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.

Iraq is not about oil.

It's true that the question of Iraq divided Europe.

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

We have a model that we're following, and it's the Libya model.

So we are disappointed that some of our closest allies, including Canada, have not agreed with us on the urgent need for this military action against Iraq.

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

Foreign policy is about choosing from nasty options.

Great powers engage.

Word War III is about to start and we cannot change the position on Vietnam.

We ought to nuke North Korea right about now just to give the world a warning.

I am voting for this war so as not to be disloyal to President Bush.