Proxy Wars Quotes

The United States had an inordinate fear of Communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear.

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

A foreign power that stands sentry in the world cannot spare its local allies the retribution of those who brand them as “collaborators” and betrayers of the faith.

We are running out of enemies. We are down to Fidel Castro and Kim Il Sung.

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

If Muslims commit acts of terror, it is because their countries are weak and incapable of fighting back, of waging formal wars on their enemies. And so terrorism by Muslims is more common than by others. If there are Muslim countries as powerful as their enemies, they would be bombing and rocketing regardless of what is now referred to as collateral damage.

The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.

Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin.

We have tried to change regimes through a variety of means - over 80 times, by some estimates. Many of these efforts were counterproductive to U.S. interests.

The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe.

If there's Cold War, no 'Star Wars' in China.

Iran must stop meddling in the affairs of Arab countries, and we refuse to be taken by Iran to an axis against Arab countries.

The Cold War has ended for America.

If we look decades ago, we know that NATO allies contributed a lot of equipment close to the border of the Soviet Union.

Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.

People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.

Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Walland the lifting of the iron curtain, troublespots abound: the Middle East and parts of Africa lack a stable regional security architecture; in east Asia, nationalist tendencies and competing ambitions are threatening peace and stability in the region and beyond.

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went.

In 1945, at the beginning of the Cold War, our leaders led us astray. We need to think of the Cold War as an aberration, a wrong turn. As such, we need to go back to where we were in 1945 - before we took the road to a permanent war economy, a national security state and a foreign policy based on unilateralism and cowboy triumphalism.

"World War III, was the Cold War".

Containment was merely appeasement on the installment plan.

Washington sees the various local and national conflicts in the Middle East as part of a battle for regional hegemony between the U.S. and Iran.

The Army I grew up in was focused on high-intensity conflict against a peer competitor called the Soviet Union.

The 'Cold War' impinged on the daily lives of Americans. The wars after 11 September 2001 have been fought without the general American population having to make any sacrifices. It goes on, and so do we.