Bob Kerrey Quotes
If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. It's not clear how they will do it, but it never is.
Some in the military and state department were distressed by this writing. England was our major WWII ally. We were fighting, side by side with soldiers of many of the colonies of the British Empire. Some nationalists in India were urging non-cooperation in the Allied war effort. Most American leaders adopted the policy of holding our differences with our allies (England, China & Russia) until after the war was won. However, Mrs. Roosevelt, was more outspoken than most other public officials.
The United States was opposed to elections at the beginning of the Vietnam war. The Viet Min, the Russian and Chinese recognized government of Ho Chi Min, was extremely well organized as a result of their cohesive organization and victory over the French Colonialists. At the urging of the French, we supported the previous Vietnam Emperor who the French had supported. However his popularity was limited to Saigon and French Colonial centers. The majority of the population saw him as the collaborator who was propped up by the hated French. There was no way that the Communist Viet Min would lose in an election. There had been no time for the people to see what peacetime living under the communists was like, and what they knew of the Emperor, they did not like. It was important to keep Vietnam from falling into the hands of the Communists. Once they won one election they would control the machinery of government to be sure that they won all subsequent elections even if the people wanted a change in government. The German newspaper thought that we should stick to our principles and allow a free election and live with the consequences. In retrospect, we would be where we ended up anyway with the Communist Viet Min in totalitarian control of the country and we would have saved many lives and much money.
“Esto perpetua” is Latin for “May it be forever”. Ireland had just obtained the right from England to pass their own laws in their own parliament. They were still under English control but now they were like a colony and not under day-to-day control.
At the time “race” was used in its modern meaning and to denote nationality or even ethnicity.
Joseph Robert Kerrey (born August 27, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 35th Governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987 and as a United States Senator from Nebraska from 1989 to 2001 and an unsuccessful 1992 candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
