Michael Masser Quotes

The United States must learn to rebuild states after overturning their regimes.

So much of our foreign policy is based on other people’s weakness.

One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to turn the job over to the United Nations.

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.

Foreign policy is consumed with momentary crises —– often created by failing states and violent groups. But in the long run, he future is shaped by winners, not noisy losers.

The United States can't go in and impose order on chaos every place in the world.

The Mutual Security Act was intended not to fight a war but to prevent a war.

We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.

No world power has ever tried to manage affair in this particular circumstance: The cycle of News, the cycle of crises, the complexity of grievances in increasing numbers of failed and failing states.

The United States learned a big lesson. Its greatest danger in the world came not from large nations but from failed states.

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, everyone in America assumed that there would be wars to follow - wars over the reunification of Germany, over the nations within the sphere of Soviet influence, and more. There weren't, because George H. W. Bush's policies and diplomacy prevented that.

I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building.

With respect to Euro-Atlantic integration, we have to realize that we need to normalize the relationships with our neighbors, and especially with Russia.

The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.

For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

The international community unfortunately did take sides in Libya, and we would never allow the Security Council to authorise anything similar to what happened in Libya.

The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.