If we had made it clear from the very beginning that we were not going to tolerate another nuclear power on the face of the earth, and had done it in Korea, where we could have accomplished it militarily, if necessary, I would put a stop to it and would have put a stop to it there.

In April 2003 following warnings by the Bush administration to the government of Syria Eagleburger condemned the possibility of military action in Syria or Iran saying that public opinion would not support such a move and that "If President Bush were to try it now even I would feel he should be skinned alive. He was formerly a member of the Board of Visitors at the College of William and Mary. International Commission on Holocaust-Era Insurance Claims
Eagleburger became chairman of the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims or ICHEIC which was set up in 1998.

Eagleburger is the only career Foreign Service Officer to have served as Secretary of State. W.