Quotes August 25, 2017

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson’s administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s brilliant ‘whiz kids’ tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
Thomas Sowell

 
 
 
 
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli

 
 
 
 
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche

 
 
 
 
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover

 
 
 
 
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
John McCain

 
 
 
 
There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
Barack Obama

 
 
 
 
As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments; my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader.
Tulsi Gabbard

 
 
 
 
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.
Chester W. Nimitz

 
 
 
 
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
Walter Dean Myers
His 1988 novel Fallen Angels is one of the books most frequently challenged in the U.S. because of its adult language and its realistic depiction of the Vietnam War.