John R. Allen Quotes

• You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.

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  Decision, Crisis, Great Power

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• Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.

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  Long, Neighbor, Afghanistan

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• Donald Trump has no credibility to criticize me or my record or anything that I have done. If he had spent a minute in the deserts of Afghanistan or in the deserts of Iraq, I might listen to what he has to say.

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  Iraq, Desert, Done

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• Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

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  Military, Army, Weakness

  "Withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan halfway done, top commander says". www.foxnews.com. July 23, 2012.

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• What we need to do is ensure that we don't create an environment that puts us on a track conceivably where the United States military finds itself in a civil military crisis with a commander in chief who would have us do illegal things.

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  Military, Illegal Things, Track

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• Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission.

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  Missions, Cornerstones, Civilians

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• What we do have to do, is listen to what Donald Trump's been saying about our military. He's called it a disaster. He says our military can't win anymore. That's a direct insult to every single man and woman who's wearing the uniform today.

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  Military, Winning, Men

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• And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship.

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  Real, Difficult Situations, Soldier

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• We need to understand what we're saying matters.

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  Needs, Matter

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• We dont want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.

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  Roots, Want, Als

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• The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.

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  Overwhelming Desire, People, Way

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• None of us wants any more war.

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  War, Want

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• There are problems in the world today.

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  World, Today, Problem

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• With Hillary Clinton as our commander in chief, our international relations will not be reduced to a business transaction. I also know that our armed forces will not become an instrument of torture and they will not be engaged in murder or carry out other illegal activities.

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  Illegal Activities, Murder, Clinton

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• We need to have a commander-in-chief who knows what she is doing.

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  Needs, Chiefs, Knows

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• The best thing I ever did was give my family everything I could.

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  Giving, My Family, Best Things

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• We dont see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and its a combination both of what the international community can do to support Afghanistan, not just in the short term, but over the long term.

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  Long, Support, Community

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• I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission.

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  Home, Numbers, Worry

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• When we talk about carpet bombing ISIL, that's what it looks like, creating huge numbers of civilian casualties, which increases the numbers of refugees flowing out of the region, which increases the misery of the Syrian people.

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  Creating, Numbers, People

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• It's not possible to put into words the sense of loss and grief that comes to a family that loses one of their children.

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  Children, Grief, Loss

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• One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.

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  Technology, Thinking, Community

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• I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk.

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  Risk, I Can

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• The Russians haven't helped us at all in the fight against ISIS. When you total up the numbers of sorties that have been going into Syria, aircraft attacks, if you will, going into Syria, when the Russians said they were going to assist, we got a very small number of Russian sorties.

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  Fighting, Small Numbers, Isis

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• There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.

  John R. Allen

  Lines, Today, September

  "Gen. Allen: Afghan relations bruised, not broken". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. April 4, 2012.

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