Sergei Lavrov Quotes

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.

I don’t care how precise your bombs and weapons of war are. When you set them off, innocent people will die.

Maintaining the law in a time of war is virtually impossible.

… the financial cost of a [military] strike isn’t a reason to acquiesce in mass murder in Syria.

Bombing Syria will achieve nothing.

The abuse of civilians and combatants has existed since the dawn of time.

if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.

We have been protecting the lives of the Russian peacekeepers who had been attacked by their Georgian comrades, because there was a joint peacekeeping force.

You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.

You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.

Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.

… the first armed aggression which the world has seen since the end of the war.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms

If women and children have cruelly and needlessly suffered, if without reason cities have been wrecked, the world should know that.