Pat Buchanan Quotes

I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

The Cold War, Bosnia and Ukraine remind us that peace is fragile. Iraq and Syria remind us that no society or culture is immune from conflict.

Bosnia is a country of hatred and fear.

I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.

Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.

The Middle East is undoubtedly in for a rocky time. In Palestine we have a situation which is badly fouled up by the past mistakes of many people, including ourselves. These probably cannot be settled without great unpleasantness, including violence.

I have always wondered why the Muslim world is in the eye of virtually every storm, in my lifetime at least?

The end of the Cold War unfroze religion and ethnicity as violent forces…

Turkey is a plague spot … a breeder of wars

What starts in the Middle East never stays in the Middle East..

I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started with a football match that then became charged in nationalist ways and ended in violence.

The history of the world - by which, of course, we mean Europe - is a record of intertribal lacerations, of ethnic cleansings.

There are no second chances in the volatile Middle East.

War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

War inside countries is all too common.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

Iraq is not about oil.

We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

Somalia is very dangerous, and no one knows that better than I.