Tom Rooney Quotes
Projecting weakness will not make us safer or discourage attacks against us. We need to show leadership and strength by demonstrating that we will not tolerate violent acts against our people, and we will not leave our citizens or our interests vulnerable to an attack.
Rooney, Tom. "Statement on the Attacks in Libya and Egypt." Congressman Tom Rooney, U.S. House of Representatives, 12 Sept. 2012.
The Security Counsel was meeting it the Situation room at the White House
He served Presidents Reagan, Clinton, and both Bushes. The “Cole” was the United States Navy ship that was bombed killing American sailors by Al Qaida. The argument of some against retaliation was that the intelligence and investigatory had not yet assembled incontrovertible proof the Al Qaida had done it.
Dagestan was the poorest of the Soviet States, It was then mainly populated by feuding Muslim sects who were in constant conflict with each other and an Islamic nationalist group that wanted independence from Russia. There were also a large number of bandits in what was a frontier culture of banditry and lawlessness.
For a similar Ancient Greek version of this notion, See : {632265}.
In addition to facing regular Confederate Troops, there were irregular insurgents who would fire at and harass normal civilian activity much like the terrorists in the Mideast today. Like today, the insurgents could exist only as long as they were sheltered and assisted by the Southern civilian population. Sherman did not see this as collective punishment as all the people in the small town of Randolph were helping the insurgents.
Giuliani had designs on the Republican Presidential nomination. However, his professional experience had lttlle to do with foreign affairs or foreign policy. Also, as a liberal Republican on many of the social issues, he had the problem of appealing to the conservative right wing of the party. So he selected this principle which no one—left or right—really disagrees with. But the right wing generally castigates the left wing for being weak and inviting aggression and other difficulties. The result was that Giuliani could not get any traction with the right wing of his party and gave up his Presidential ambitions for 2012.
President Obama had publicly drawn a line in the sand stating the Syrian government must not use chemical weapons to put down the revolution and they went ahead and did it anyway. They did turn over all their chemical weapons to coalition forces, but Obama did not order any military or serious economic retribution for having dared to cross the line. The President argued that now that there were no chemical weapons in the hands of the government, the problem was solved. Many, including Gates, thought that this was a big mistake because American foreign policy and military prestige was at stake—that future presidents had diminished credibility because the United States might or might not follow through with their threats. See {642572} for a similar criticism.
Thomas Joseph Rooney is an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Florida from 2009 to 2019. He represented Florida's 16th congressional district from 2009 to 2013 and Florida's 17th congressional district from 2013 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party.
