Curt Weldon Quotes

The time of Milosevic has long passed.

While President Putin is busy redrawing the map of Europe, President Obama is busy filling out his brackets.

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

War is the only destination to which Washington can lead.

Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing on those disagreements.

Take a look at the bombing of Serbia in 1999. The US was quite open about the reasons for the bombing. A main reason was to preserve stability and credibility. Serbia was interfering with stability, meaning that it was the one part of the Balkans that was not integrated into the Western-dominated (mostly US-dominated) system.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

When Karim and his group heard about Saddam coming, they wanted to kill him, but fate had other ideas.

The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.

I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case.

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.

All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

We’re not declaring war. We haven’t declared war since the Second World War. We’re going to war.

There are a lot of starry eyed State Department boys busting to raise the standard of living of Arabs who should be all killed off… no State Department people should be permitted in a theater of war, nor at the peace treaty

Why take sides in the fractious squabbles of a quarrelsome continent?

Politicians didn’t want to talk to their constituents about body bags that would be coming back.