Anthony Zinni Quotes

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

In the lead-up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw, at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence, and irresponsibility; at worst, lying, incompetence, and corruption.

If you put two brigades on the ground right now with U.S. forces, they would push ISIS back into Syria in a heartbeat.

Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit.

I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.

The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.