Joschka Fischer Quotes
We will not send troops. Germany is not committed to Iraq - we will not commit ourselves with troops.
Fischer, Joschka. Interview by Lally Weymouth. The Washington Post, 30 May 2004.
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.
Four years later the President embarked on a nation-building effort in Iraq which was beset with many problems.
Ironically, Lieberman was using this quotation to campaign against Bush’s son, George W. Bush.
This is a variant of a famous Clauswitz quotation {635143}.
The Vietnam War was certainly not a victory for the U. S. Some saw it as our first defeat. While it was not ended on Johnson’s watch, he must certainly share that responsibility with Nixon and even JFK as these three all were responsible for our Vietnam failure. Johnson, ended up with what he feared most.
Charles Wilkes, a Union Navy Captain enforcing the naval blockade of the South, intercepted a British mail ship in the Caribbean and discovered two Confederate diplomats on board. He took them into custody to the cheers of Congress. England, however, was outraged that passengers—diplomats—on one of their ships was seized after boarding. This was technically an act of war. Abraham Lincoln, to the distress of many in Congress ordered the Confederate diplomats released explaining with this quotation.
sending American troops to Vietnam
Barry Goldwater in the 20th century used a variation of this quotation. See {601784}.
Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens. He served as Foreign Minister and as Vice Chancellor of Germany in the cabinet of Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005. Fischer has been a leading figure in the German Greens since the 1970s, and according to opinion polls, he was the most popular politician in Germany for most of the Schröder government's duration. Following the September 2005 election, in which the Schröder government was defeated, he left office on 22 November 2005. In September 2010 he supported the creation of the Spinelli Group, a europarliamentarian initiative founded with a view to reinvigorate efforts to federalise the European Union.
