Kwasi Kwarteng Quotes

… a visceral fear of appeasement has led to entirely avoidable disasters

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

We are pursuing neither law nor peace in Southeast Asia. We are not even pursuing freedom.

Be very careful of military action. You will be judged by how it ends—not by how it begins.

Whether you think we belong in Iraq or not, we can’t tune it out.

For 60 years, my country. The United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy … in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.

We can’t always pick and choose which conflicts were going to get into.

Serbia must now be dealt with.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

I'm not saying it was wrong to intervene in Kosovo.

I know I will be severely criticized by the interventionists in America when I say we should not enter a war unless we have a reasonable chance of winning.

After the '30s, we said, "no more Munichs." And it got us in a lot of problems. Then we said, "No more Vietnams." Now if we say, "No more Iraqs," the next one won't be an Iraq. It will be something different. You can't learn lessons.

If military action in Iraq is launched without a new U.N. resolution, Canada will not participate.

Regime change is not within that purview. And that has been an all-out disaster.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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.

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

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.

We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in.