Hideki Tojo Quotes

President Trump is trying to avoid war through economic pressure. Our so-called allies are undermining that pressure and in the process making war more likely.

Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.

In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion.

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.

I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.

Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.

The West will have to choose: either to come to terms with Russians, or to receive a retaliatory blow. This retaliatory blow will not be by means of war. We will resort to the same weapon: nationalism.

Unfortunately, the American policy towards Pakistan is just to worry and express concern, and that is not a clear policy at all.

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

Every diplomatic breakthrough is preceded by a crisis, but not every crisis leads to a breakthrough.

I could have been very popular if I had launched a military attack on Iran but I chose patience.

It is doubtful if anyone could recount a single instance in which a rupture of diplomatic relations has ever brought any benefit to the government that initiated the break.

I am saddened, saddened that this President [George W. Bush] failed so miserably at diplomacy that were now forced to war.

…sanctions applied to a large nation meant war. They bred “incurable hatreds”.

Presidents should plan for war before they threaten war.

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

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

We can pursue peaceful diplomacy with the Iranian regime while also continuing our maximum economic pressure campaign, while also defending ourselves... To say that it's a war with Iran or nothing is just a fundamental misunderstanding of how foreign policy actually works.

We did more to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions with a computer virus than we ever could have with bombs (and we did still more with diplomacy - the abandonment of which is also bad for our military, because militaries can only stop a problem, not fix a problem).

I believe that dialogue is necessary. We were unable to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue through only the sanctions and pressure.

Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws.

There is reason to say that negotiations with the North Koreans are not easy, they may not succeed, but they may be a way of getting to where we want to get to, limiting the capability of the North Koreans to do harm to us and our allies without the use of military force and without the risk of a major war in Northeast Asia.

Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.

Power alone is respected and ... in order to gain peace, the United States has no alternative but to wield it

Great powers engage.