Rich Lowry Quotes
The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside the point.
Lowry, Rich. "The Troop Surge." National Review, National Review Inc., 2007.
During the presidential debates George W. Bush stated that he would be very hesitant to use the military for nation building around the world. Less than a year later, the Bush administration, faced with the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, launched a massive attack on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. After fighting and winning the war, the military soon realized that they would in fact be involved in nation building. However, with the assistance of the United Nations much of the humanitarian burden was lifted from the U.S. military.
Ironically, Lieberman was using this quotation to campaign against Bush’s son, George W. Bush.
Reacting to calls to legalize drugs.
3 years later he led America on a huge invasion and nation building project in Iraq. It turned out that had he listened to his own advice and not flip-flopped, the huge cost of the Iraq War might have been avoided.
Richard Lowry (/ˈlaʊri/; born 1968) is an American writer who is the editor of National Review, an American conservative news and opinion magazine. Lowry became editor of National Review in 1997 when selected by its founder, William F. Buckley, Jr., to lead the magazine. Lowry is also a syndicated columnist, author, and political analyst who is a frequent guest on NBC News and Meet the Press. His most recent book, The Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free, was released in 2019.
