The 31+ Alexander Haig Quotes

I Started Out As A Cold Warrior, Even My Last Years In Grade School.

Syria Is A Terrorist State By Any Definition And Is So Classified By The State Department. I Happen To Think Iran Is Too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, They're All Involved.

I Think The New Generations In America, The America's Youth, No Longer Care About Vietnam. They Don't Want To Hear Any More About It.

Sooner Or Later Something Had To Give. But President Bush, Faced With The Unprecedented Affront Of 9-11, Could Not Wait To Take Action. So He Had To Do What We Were Capable Of Doing, And He Did It Brilliantly.

Prior To His Takeover Of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini Was Camping Near Paris, Giving Daily News Conferences To A Fawning International Press Corps Without A Murmur Of Complaint To France From The United States About The Disaster It Was Coddling In The Incredibly Naive Liberal Belief That This Extremist Cleric Would Be An Improvement Over The Shah.

If They Analyze The Situation As Thoroughly As They Should, Muslims Will Realize They Are The First Targets. What Are The Fundamentalists Really After? Simply Taking Over Islam And Then Turning Its Back On Modernity.

As I Look Back At The Span Of The Cold War In Those Early Days, In The '50s, For Example, There Was A Great Deal Of Soviet Propaganda Here In The United States, But It Was Clumsy, And It Was Anchored To A Lot Of Ideological Support In Certain Circles In America Itself.

More Often Than Not, Americans And Westerners Overestimated The Power And Capability Of The Soviet Union.

We Didn't Do Anything Wrong, But Among The Lessons Learned, Given The Magnitude Of The Problems We Now Face In Afghanistan, A Major U.s. Force On The Ground Would Convince The World We Were In For The Long-haul Recovery Of A Country Devastated By 21 Years Of Warfare.

The World Awaits Beijing's Hosting Of The 2008 Olympics, An Occasion Which Will Bring Into The Global Spotlight The Dramatic Advances China Is Making In Enhancing The Quality Of Life For Its People.

You Have To Look At The History Of The Middle East In Particular. It Has Been One Of Failure And Frustration, Of Feudalism And Tribalism.

There Are Contingency Plans In The Nato Doctrine To Fire A Nuclear Weapon For Demonstrative Purposes, To Demonstrate To The Other Side That They Are Exceeding The Limits Of Toleration In The Conventional Area.