Douglas J. Feith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.
-- Douglas J. Feith

#Divorce #Opposites #Essentials
Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.
-- Douglas J. Feith

#Action #Israeli
There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.
-- Douglas J. Feith

#Government #Als #Linkages
No, the United States does not target civilians.
-- Douglas J. Feith

#United States #Doe #Target
If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.
-- Douglas J. Feith

#Country #Government #Neighbor
I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet.
-- Douglas J. Feith

#Iraq #Feet #Concerned
I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.
-- Douglas J. Feith

#Thinking #Iraq #Inevitable
I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
-- Douglas J. Feith

#War #Reading #Kids
Europe is a collection of free countries.
-- Douglas J. Feith

#Country #Europe #Collections
It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.
-- Douglas J. Feith

#Iran #Kuwait #Tyrants
If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions.
-- Douglas J. Feith

#Military #Night #Israel
The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.
-- Douglas J. Feith

#Cat #Government #Games
The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.
-- Douglas J. Feith

#Keys #Government #Iraq
The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number of people in Europe, including governments in Europe, with whom we agree.
-- Douglas J. Feith

#Government #Agreement #Europe
I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction.
-- Douglas J. Feith

#Weapons #Destruction #Mass
What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do.
-- Douglas J. Feith

#Government #World #Facts

You may also like:

Ahmed Chalabi
Iraqi Politician
Andrew Natsios
David Frum
Speechwriter
Dick Cheney
Former Vice President of the United States
Donald Rumsfeld
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense
Elliott Abrams
Lawyer
Eustace Mullins
Writer
George Tenet
Professor
Irving Kristol
Columnist
John Bolton
Lawyer
Kenneth Adelman
Diplomat
Michael A. Ledeen
Historian
Paul Bremer
Diplomat
Paul Wolfowitz
Ambassador
Richard Perle
Political scientist
Robert Gallucci
Robert Kagan
Historian
Tommy Franks
General
William Kristol
Commentator