James Inhofe Quotes
We don't stop and realize that we are dealing with people - the far-left doesn't think we need a military to start with, they really don't. You've heard me say this before, they really believe if all countries would just stand in a circle and unilaterally disarm and hold hands then all threats would go away, they believe that. They would never say that but they do believe that.
Inhofe, James. "National Defense." Congressional Record, Government Printing Office, 2006.
In the play the two characters are a Russian and American disarmament negotiator:
The Palestinians in Gaza, led by the Terrorist Group Hamas, fired over 1000 rockets into Israel killing 5 people. The Israeli Defense forces finally retaliated and destroyed much of the Hamas infrastructure and killing the Hamas military leader. A number of other countries were trying to broker a cease fire and Blitzer was trying to determine what each side wanted.
Theodore Roosevelt was the Presidential nominee. Johnson was a leader of some members of Congress some of whom were extreme isolationists and some of whom were Nazi sympathizers and Hitler admirers. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor later that year, Germany, fulfilling its treaty with Japan, declared war on America, Johnson’s group no longer mattered. Before WWII most Republicans were opposed to Defense Spending and accused the Democrats of being war hawks. After WWII, they flip flopped and became more hawkish than the Democrats who they accused of being soft on defense for years thereafter. See {631380} for President Roosevelt’s different view.
What is interesting about this quote is that it is very much like many American politicians who support a large and strong military.
James Mountain Inhofe is an American businessman and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Oklahoma, a seat he was first elected to in 1994. A member of the Republican Party, he chaired the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) from 2003 to 2007 and again from 2015 to 2017. Inhofe served as the U.S. Representative for Oklahoma's 1st congressional district from 1987 to 1994 and as mayor of Tulsa from 1978 to 1984.
