George F. Will Quotes
Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not exampled since Jane Fonda sat on the anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi to be photographed - Mr. McDermott said in effect, not in effect, he said it, we should take Saddam Hussein at his word and not take the President at his word. He said the United States is simply trying to provoke. I mean, why Saddam Hussein doesn't pay commercial time for that advertisement for his policy, I do not know.
Will, George F. This Week with George Stephanopoulos. ABC, 29 Sept. 2002.
The United States had publicly accused Iran of providing explosives weapons to the Iraqi insurgents who were killing each other and American soldiers in their Sunni-Shiia Islamic internecine civil war. The Iraq War was going poorly for America and the vast majority of the American public was opposed to the George W. Bush increase in troops fighting in Iraq. Many Americans suggested that Bush might be accusing Iran at that point in time (Iran had been doing it for several years) in order to distract public opinion from the bad news of more bombings and killings in Iraq. The Iranian president was more definitive in his accusation. Bush’s spokespeople claimed that they have just assembled better evidence which accounted for the recent announcement.
At the time of this speech virtually the entire world believed that. However world attitude changed markedly after the administration of George W. Bush and the United States invasion of Afghanistan after September 11 and the Iraq War which was for regime change.
He served Presidents Reagan, Clinton, and both Bushes
This quotation shows American tolerance and freedom of speech even for our head of state.
Kennedy was a relatively new president and the Bay of Pigs Operation was prepared and planned by the CIA under the Eisenhower Administration. The president assumed that the intelligence was correct and there would be an uprising of the Cuban people when as soon as the landing took place. That was all wrong and the Cubans actually supported Castro and the operation was a disaster. Kennedy never trusted the CIA after that.
George Frederick Will is an American libertarian-conservative political commentator and author. He writes regular columns for The Washington Post and provides commentary for NBC News and MSNBC. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann (1889–1974). He won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977.
