Rory Kennedy Quotes

War is no picnic. Wars should be prevented, and if you can't prevent them, you have to put them off.

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

The possibility of the United States winning the war and losing the peace is real and serious

Wars are hard to exit. Once a war against poverty, crime, or terrorism is launched. Announcing a unilateral truce is usually political suicide. Presidents get boxed into absolutist policies in which compromise is impossible and victory is the only acceptable outcome.

One war at a time.

Americans have learned that it is harder to end wars than it is to begin them

It's very easy to get into a war, but I don't know how you extricate from one.

I think that our weakness is understanding that when we go to war, we go to war to win.

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

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

Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners.

If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.'

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

Once you start a war, you have to win.

War is failure of diplomacy.

Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever.

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

Is a military solution the only way to stop nations from doing bad things?

Right now, the choice isn't between war and peace. It is between war and endless war.

It is easier to begin a war than to end one, which is why the decision to start a conflict should not be entrusted to the person who wages it. Post‐war presidents have abandoned this wisdom.

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

When it comes to matters of war and peace, we must not act rashly.