Robert Scheer Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.

  Robert Scheer

  Running, Strong, War

• If the war on terror is endless, you could forget about democracy.

  Robert Scheer

  War, Democracy, Forget

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• Democrats can give us wars, you know? Democrats can play the false patriotism card.

  Robert Scheer

  War, Play, Giving

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• Eisenhower was a pretty peace-oriented president. Truman was a pretty hawkish. I would argue, if we had more time, I would argue Truman had a lot to do with getting the Cold War going.

  Robert Scheer

  War, President, Arguing

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• Eisenhower provided the first break in the Cold War, by bringing Khrushchev to the United States, in humanizing the Soviets; and then Nixon, by making the opening to China; and then Reagan, even meeting in Reykjavik with Gorbachev and acknowledging that nuclear weapons are a horror. So I won't accept that Republicans just escalate. Republicans, at least when they were more moderate, they were maybe even more isolationist, they sometimes brought sanity to the debate. We don't have that now. We have - all these Republicans have gone off the neoconservative deep end.

  Robert Scheer

  War, United States, Nuclear

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• It takes no courage to make war, particularly if you're not going to go and your children are not going to go.

  Robert Scheer

  Children, War, Ifs

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• Richard Nixon even before becoming president, before meeting Henry Kissinger, he said, "This is ridiculous. Communism is nationalist. The Chinese and Russian and Yugoslav and Cuban and - none of these communists get along, and the Koreans and the Vietnamese, and we can do business with them." And then he opened up to China, and that's when the Cold War started.

  Robert Scheer

  War, Chinese, President

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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