Quotes about US Forces

Amtzia Baram

Someone should tell the president that U.S. forces would need to be in Iraq for two to five years, and they will not have an easy time there.

Ann Coulter

Hussein praised his sons for putting up a brave fight, noting that U.S. forces had surrounded their compound with advanced weaponry, ground troops and warplanes. In case that didn't work, U.S. forces were prepared to tell Janet Reno that a small Cuban boy was inside the house.

Leon Panetta

The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.

George McGovern

As an American, I want our forces to prevail.

Thomas Boulton Fargo

The habitual relationships built through exercises and training is our biggest guarantor of access in time of need, over time, can develop into habitual use of certain facilities by deployed US forces with the eventual goal of being guaranteed use in a crisis, or permission to preposition logistics stocks and other critical material in strategic forward locations.

Daniel W. Drezner

[Ronald] Reagan talked tough on terrorism, but after 241 marines were killed in a suicide attack in Beirut, he did not hesitate to draw down U. S. Forces from a peripheral conflict in Lebanon.

There were really no American national interests involved in the Civil War in Lebanon. A conservative like Reagan could simply withdraw while if a liberal Democrat did the same thing, he would be castigated by the right for showing weakness and inviting attacks on our diplomats, troops, and citizens all over the world. There were a few ultra conservatives who objected to Reagan’s decision and several, decades later, blamed this “weakness” as the facilitator of subsequent terrorist attacks on our embassies, and even 9-11.

Noam Chomsky

I agree with Bill Clinton that US forces should not be sent to Haiti, but not for his reasons.

Joby Warrick

After spending time in the East and meeting with ordinary Afghans there, it's hard to imagine how a future Afghan government will retain control of provinces such as Khost or Paktia once U.S. forces are gone.

Jim Mattis

I don't see lethality as the problem. I mean, the lethality of US forces is quite remarkable.

US Forces Quotes