Bruce Sterling Quotes

We used to be a serious country. When we got attacked at Pearl Harbor, we took on Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. We beat all three in less than four years. We're about to enter the seventh year of this phony war against ... [terrorist groups], and we're losing.

World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing.

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania ended the lives of thousands of people and changed the lives of many more. But they did not change the world.

Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place.

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.

There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had been represented by the totalitarian Great Powers, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.

Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.

And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen.

There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.

The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.

But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.

After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called 'peace dividend.' As a result, we ignored the toxic mixture of militant Islam and terror that ultimately led to 9/11.

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.

But let there be no misunderstanding. The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.

I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforcement problem to considering terrorist attacks, especially on the scale we have on 9/11, as being an act of war.

The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

The truth was, there was never a connection between Iraq and Osama Bin Laden. There were no weapons of mass destruction, either.