John Abizaid Quotes

When you start a military intervention, you do not know what will happen even in the next hour

It’s not only time to It is time not to take force off the table… It is time to put force on the table and use it

If your goal is to destroy ISIS, there needs to be a ground force. It could be American or foreign.

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

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.

Either a war has to be fought, or it doesn't.

With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to arms was made.

As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

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.

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.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

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

Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here!

When one nation is agreed in the policy of fighting another, any pretext will answer.

We are talking about using military force, but we are not talking about war. I think that is an important distinction.

If we think it necessary to wage war, we shall do so with or without your consent.

My home policy? I wage war. My foreign policy? I wage war. Always, everywhere, I wage war.

We shall certainly not drift into war, but go to war if we do, because we intend it and have a purpose we mean to accomplish.

War is but an instrument of international policy.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

induce me to aid them in their unholy and execrable design of manufacturing a war with Mexico.

As Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy, in time of war, I suppose I have a right to take any measure which may best subdue the enemy.