Michael Hastings Quotes

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

All wars are mishandled.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

War is too serious a matter to be entrusted to generals.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

War is the most serious of the complicated relationships of humankind.

There is no area where experience matters more than in war and diplomacy.

It’s damn easy to get into a war, but damned harder to extricate yourself once you get in.

I've always been interested in the politics of war. War is one of those things that, the longer I studied it, the more illogical it seemed.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms