Bashir Assad Quotes

The war in Iraq, specifically America's role of leadership in this war, is a painful invitation to ask ourselves what, if anything, we've learned from previous wars. I am revolted by the brutal killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent people during any war. And I'm saddened by the apparent inability of human beings to find less violent solutions to conflict and terrorism.

As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

Beyond the futility of armed force, and ultimately more important, is the fact that war in our time inevitably results in the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. To put it more bluntly, war is terrorism. That is why a 'war on terrorism' is a contradiction in terms.

Just watching Israel bombarding Palestine and Palestine sending one or two little rockets over to Israel - it's just too sad for words.

We are not only facing economic disaster and the question of peace and war. Ukrainians are traumatized by this Moscow-led aggression that has cost the lives of 5,000 people.

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.

Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.

A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism.

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.

You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.

Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

The terrorists know that the outcome will leave them emboldened or defeated. So they are waging a campaign of murder and destruction. And there is no limit to the innocent lives they are willing to take.

We've been at war for many years in Afghanistan following 9/11. We know that we've got young men and women on the ground now. We've got our blood and treasure at stake there already.

Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.

Wars come and go; politics endure.