War on terror Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about War on terror.
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“Syrian civil war”
“September 11 attacks”
“War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)”
“In the war on terror we did everything wrong that we could have done.”
“You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.”
“Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.”
“Wikipedia: War on terror”
“Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.”
“There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.”
“There are some Arabs who think that the Germans did the right thing by the Jews. This makes it easy to recruit Arab terrorist.”
“Because we are so unfamiliar with the motivation of the people we are dealing with, we are more afraid of them than we need to be.”
“This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while.”
“Our war on terror begins with al-Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.”
“On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution.”
“It made sense to get bin Laden; it made no sense to try and unify Afghanistan. It made no sense in my view to engage in thinking that in Iraq they had a nuclear weapon.”
“We were not faced (in the cold war) in a conflict with people who are prepared to die for their cause. We weren't in conflict with people whose idea is to kill as many as they could.”
“Al Qaeda has failed in its goals. The United States has succeeded, not so much in winning the war as in preventing the Islamists from winning, and, from a geopolitical perspective, that is good enough.”
“You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.”
“We are bombarded with information about our alert status and we're told to report suspicious-looking characters. That primes people to be more paranoid.”