Paul Martin Quotes

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

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 must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.

In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world.

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 think Tony Blair has to come down on one side or the other. You can't be a half-hearted supporter of the possible attack on Iraq. You're either with George Bush or you're against him.

We have a substantial number of countries that have pledged and provided all kinds of support for the United States in the event that war becomes necessary in Iraq.

War is but an instrument of international policy.

Such recognition is not necessary in order to enable the United States to intervene and pacify the Island.

The president refuses to say… refuses to say that the objective over there is victory.

I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.

I said that America's role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

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.

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

I've been quite involved in a lot of U.N. operations over the years. I was a U.N. observer at the East Timor referendum in 2000. I've been very involved in that for a long time.

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

What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria.

As we've seen, deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense. Countries typically don't want foreign soldiers in their cities and towns.