#regime

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else. ↗

— Ted Rall

#alliance #cheap #country #else #hands

Actually I can't imagine Nato troops on the ground and I think it's also important to send that very clear message to the UN and other organisations right now so that appropriate plans can be in place in due time and the Gaddafi regime can collapse soon. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#also #appropriate #clear #clear message #collapse

First of all we have to recognize that despite all the problems - and in some cases failures - that this regime has been much more successful, much more resilient, than people had anticipated. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

#been #cases #despite #failures #first

I left Motown because of the regime of people who were there. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#i #left #motown #people #regime

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#been #brutality #castro #cuban #cuban people

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#back #castro #cruelty #hand #invited

If I am elected President, the Castro regime will have no reason to doubt our unwavering commitment to your cause. The regime will feel the full weight of American resolve. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#american #castro #cause #commitment #doubt

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#certain #characters #dictated #farmer #fisherman

All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#america #colonial #colonies #crying #fact

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime. ↗

— William Kirby

#always #argue #calculation #conflict #could