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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #civilian




Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments.


Peter Arnett


#back #casualties #challenge #civilian #civilian casualties

The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state. We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.


Nong Duc Manh


#civilians #concrete #harm #identify #independent

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.


Donald Rumsfeld


#civilian #commander-in-chief #control #country #defense

The monstrous effects on Korean civilians of the methods of warfare adopted by the United Nations — the blanket fire bombing of North Korean cities, the destruction of dams and the resulting devastation of the food supply and an unremitting aerial bombardment more intensive than anything experienced during the Second World War. At one point the Americans gave up bombing targets in the North when their intelligence reported that there were no more buildings over one story high left standing in the entire country … the overall death toll was staggering: possibly as many as four million people. About three million were civilians (one out of every ten Koreans). Even to a world that had just begun to recover from the vast devastation of the Second World War, Korea was a man-made hell with a place among the most violent excesses of the 20th century.


Reg Whitaker


#korean-war #north-korea #death

Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy fighting spirit.


Robert A. Heinlein


#commodity #contractor #military #military

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.


Daniel Ellsberg


#american #choice #civilians #deaths #decent

Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal.


Alcee Hastings


#attacks #borders #civilians #furthering #goal

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.


Martin Van Creveld


#also #civilians #constitute #desert #except

Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years.


John Negroponte


#arrived #back #before #briefing #civilian

If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.


Benjamin Netanyahu


#because #behind #civilians #fire #greatest






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