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Nya citat 2002-05-30
I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villains. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung.
Colin Powell, U.S. General
The end of democracy, and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of the lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.
Thomas Jefferson
If we see that Germany is winning, we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don't want to see Hitler victorious in any circumstances.
U.S. Vice President Harry Truman, 1941
No enforcement action shall be taken under regional arrangements or by regional agencies without the authorization of the [United Nations] Security Council.
UN Charter, Chapter VIII, Article 53, signed by the U.S. in 1945
It would be our intention to clear North Korea of enemy forces. This could be accomplished through the atomic bombing of enemy military concentrations and installations in North Korea and the sowing of fields of suitable radioactive materials.
US General Douglas MacArthur, 1952
With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.
Henry Kissinger, U.S. Secretary of State (1973-1976)
I call it the Madman Theory, Bob. I want the North Vietnamese to believe I've reached the point where I might do anything to stop the war. We'll just slip the word to them that, for God's sake, you know Nixon is obsessed about Communism. We can't restrain him when he's angry - and he has his hand on the nuclear button - and Ho Chi Minh himself will be in Paris in two days begging for peace.
Richard Nixon, to Chief Aide Robert Haldeman
Just one of our relatively invulnerable Poseidon submarines-less than 2% of our total nuclear force of submarines, aircraft, and land-based missiles-carries enough warheads to destroy every large and medium-sized city in the Soviet Union.
Jimmy Carter, U.S. President, 1977
You have survivability of industrial potential, protection of a percentage of your citizens, and you have a capability that inflicts more damage on the opposition than it can inflict on you. That's the way you can have a winner.
U.S. Vice President George Bush, 1980, on how to win a nuclear war
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen as targets because of their concentration of activities and population.
U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey
Create a belt of scorched earth across the avenues of communism to block the Asiatic hordes.
U.S. General Charles Willoughby, on the proposed use of atomic bombs in Vietnam, 1954
American strategic [nuclear] forces do not exist solely for the purpose of deterring a Soviet nuclear threat or attack against the U.S. itself. Instead, they are intended to support U.S. foreign policy.
Colin Gray, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
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.
US Secretary of State, Alexander Haig, 1983
Military strategists can claim that an intelligent U.S. offensive strategy, wedded to homeland defenses, should reduce U.S. casualties to approximately 20 million ... a level compatible with national survival and recovery.
Colin Gray, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, on estimated casualties incurred from a nuclear first-strike against the U.S.S.R.
If Washington officials were so intent on sending a message to Hanoi, surely small tactical weapons would be a way to tell Hanoi something, as two atomic bombs had spoken convincingly to Japanese officials during World War II and the threat of atomic bombs induced the North Koreans to accept meaningful negotiations during the Korean War.
U.S. General William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. Forces in Vietnam, on U.S. Strategy there
We could not leave them to themselves - they were unfit for self-government - and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain’s was ... there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them.
U.S. President William McKinley, 1899, on the Filipinos, following the U.S. invasion of the Philippines in 1898
By God, we've kicked the Vietnam Syndrome once and for all!
U.S. President George Bush, on the success of shaping public opinion for the U.S.-Iraq war
No scenario has been written then, nor has it been written since, to explain why the Russians would want to conquer Western Europe by force or to bomb the United States. Neither action would have contributed in any tangible way to the Soviet national interest and would have hazarded the destruction of the Soviet state. The basic question was never raised, for the Cold War prism created in the minds of the diplomatic and military strategists a clear-cut world of black and white; there were no grays.
Harry Rositzke, CIA Analyst, Eastern Europe, 1977
I hereby find that the following operation in a foreign country (including all support necessary to such operation) is important to the national security of the United States: Support and conduct paramilitary operations against Nicaragua.
President Ronald Reagan, 1981
I would say that the entire, almost the entire Korean Peninsula is just a terrible mess. Everything is destroyed. There is nothing standing worthy of the name.
U.S. Major General Emmett O’Donnell, on the aftermath of the Korean War, 1951
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