Garry Kasparov Quotes

You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.

I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk. Let me give simple, responsible reasons: (1) It was a cakewalk last time; (2) they've become much weaker; (3) we've become much stronger; and (4) now we're playing for keeps.

Throughout the twentieth century and into the beginning of the twenty-first, the United States repeatedly used its military power, and that of its clandestine services, to overthrow governments that refused to protect American interests. Each time, it cloaked its intervention in the rhetoric of national security and liberation. In most cases, however, it acted mainly for economic reasons-specifically to establish, promote and defend the right of Americans to do business around the world without interference.

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

I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.

Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.

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

We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.

When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.

When it comes to the Middle East, this is always a very difficult issue for any American president.

We can go to the American people on this issue of winning the war [against terrorism]. We can go to the country on this issue because they trust the Republican Party to do a better job of protecting and strengthening America's military might and thereby protecting America.

Our national aims can be realized only by military means. The matter needs no further elaboration or interpretation.

More commonly, states choose to ally themselves with the United States out of a desire for U.S. protection from a regional threat. The United States has long be an attractive ally against intimidating neighbors: it is strong enough to shift a regional balance of power, and it generally does so without conquering its allies in the process.

Very near the heart of all foreign affairs is the relationship between policy and military power.

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

The stationing of U. S. troops abroad on a permanent basis in foreign military installations is the kind of thing that should not be done without the approval of the Senate.

America’s foreign policy has left us with more enemies and fewer allies.

We do not need Pakistan to win our war in Afghanistan, but as long as we say that we do, the Pakistanis will play us like a bad fiddle.

Doesn't it seem awfully strange that the Iraqi government we support is an ally of the Iranians who are our declared enemies? Are we not now supporting the Iranians by propping up their allies in Iraq?

There are two things that are very expensive in international relations: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail

More and more countries, mostly all countries, do not want large American forces on their soil. That’s a reality. We can live in the denial of that, but we are also living in the reality of that.

The sometimes contradictory demands of the American people—perfect security at home without burdensome military engagements abroad—have fueled the technology-driven, tactical approach of drone warfare.

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government