Quotes about Proxy Conflict

Richard Engel

The U.S. presence and American missteps made ethnic violence in Iraq far worse than it would have been otherwise after Saddam Saddam Hussein's fall.

Saad Hariri

Hezbollah is in Syria and Iraq and Yemen, so people should not focus on Hezbollah that it's a Lebanese entity only, but it's something regional.

Richard Engel

Israel specifically does not want Syria to hand over weapons, chemical or conventional, to Hezbollah.

Avigdor Lieberman

Damascus is the center of world terror. All these organizations, Jihad and Hamas, their headquarters are in Damascus. Syria supports Hezbollah.

Nikki Haley

There is an obvious truth here that must be spoken. The truth is that Assad, Russia, and Iran have no interest in peace.

Fidel Castro

Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called it the Cold War. But it wasn't cold. I am someone who comes from the third world. In the third world, the cold war wasn't cold. Millions had been killed. It was a proxy war.

Renee De Nevers

The consequences of U. S. superiority is that its opponents, both state and non-state actors, will have little choice but to resort to guerilla tactics and urban warfare because they simply cannot confront U. S. forces head on..

Noam Chomsky

When the United States bombs South Vietnam, it is defending South Vietnam.

Chomsky was not asserting this statement as the truth. He was making the statement assuming that the absurdity of it would be clear to the listener and they would also realize that was what the then government policy was. North Vietnamese had infiltrated the South and had much support in many of the South Vietnamese villages. When the U. S. bombed the North Vietnamese—and the Vietnamese inhabitants—of those villages, the intention was indeed to help the South Vietnamese. If Chomsky were a politician running for office, his opponent might well have taken this quote and used it to “prove” that Chomsky supported the American effort in the Vietnam War when he was a vehement opponent.

John Bolton

There's no doubt that Iran funds and supplies Hamas with weapons.

Conor Lamb

Our military and national security agencies will require flexibility to take steps, short of war, to counter the Iranian threat in the Middle East and elsewhere.

Chris Gibson

Escalating in Syria is not the best approach.

Haider al-Abadi

Any claim between the U.S. and Iran, any conflict is bad for Iraq.

Noam Chomsky

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

Leonid Brezhnev

Of late, attempts have been made in the USA - at a high level and in a rather cynical form - to play the "Chinese card" against the USSR. This is a shortsighted and dangerous policy.

Thomas F. Eagleton

From little involvements—little CIA wars—big wars grow.

Proxy Conflict Quotes