Alex Morrison Quotes

We’re not going to need as many people to do peacekeeping as we needed to fight the war.

History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbors.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.

I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.

I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems.

I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.

There are two things that will always be difficult for a democratic people to do: to start a war and to finish it

The most expensive peace is far less costly than the cheapest war.

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

The possibility of the United States winning the war and losing the peace is real and serious

One war at a time.

Is a military solution the only way to stop nations from doing bad things?

I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things.

When it comes to matters of war and peace, we must not act rashly.

It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

Foreign policy is painstakingly difficult, and if there is to be anything gained from the experience in Libya, it is how not to conduct world affairs.

We are proud of the role our military plays in Japan: defending our allies, ensuring regional peace and stability, and responding to humanitarian catastrophes.

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

What is the Obama Doctrine? It seems to be one of disengagement, to try to ignore the hot, religious, dry, poor countries from Algeria to Pakistan.