Kosovo Quotes - Page 2

• [Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the Taliban, and Iraq the property of a psychopathic crime family. Now, I'm sorry to say, I've no patience with that leftist mentality anymore.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Sorry, Iraq, Bosnia

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• We know what our policy is regarding the territory of Israel, Kosovo, Bosnia, Macedonia and even Nagorno-Karabakh. What is our policy regarding the territory of the United States? No nation in history has ever been as willing to accommodate those who would dismember it as has the United States of America. Trying to get a straight pro-U. S. comment out of a U.S. elected official is like trying to nail a custard pie to the side of a barn.

  Barry Farber

  Israel, Pie, America

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• In Sarajevo and in Syria, these are societies - in Bosnia, in Serbia, in Kosovo, in Syria - where ethnicities live side by side and intermarry for long periods of time until it becomes valuable to exploit the division. And yes, the division's there because you can always revert back to history, you can always inflame it, but it is manipulated for political ends.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Ethnicity, Long, Thought Provoking

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• The international community cannot stand by and watch the massacre of Libyan protesters. In Rwanda we watched. In Kosovo we acted.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Spring, Community, Watches

  Anne-Marie Slaughter @SlaughterAM, twitter.com. February 24, 2011.

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• The first thing you have to do is understand what success looks like. And to understand what success looks like you have to understand the intent. If you understand that intent is to make sure the sea lines are secure, then suddenly bombing Kosovo makes sense, because you don't want Serbia to reemerge as a major power.

  George Friedman

  Sea, Lines, Want

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Sometimes people say to me, 'Well, what was the difference between Kosovo, which was a successful intervention, and Iraq and Afghanistan that have been so difficult?' And the answer is perfectly simple. In Kosovo, you have, after the removal of the loss of its regime, you had a process of political and economic reconstruction that took its part without the intervention of terrorism. If you had the intervention of terrorism, by the way, it would have been extremely difficult there - but we didn't.

  Tony Blair

  Successful, Loss, Simple

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• I saw my job [as president] as to try to move the world from an unstable condition of interdependence toward more integrated cooperative world community. Therefore, my approach was to cooperate wherever possible and to build institutions of cooperation, an expanded NATO, the World Trade Organization, the Summit of the Americas, the Asian Pacific Leaders, all those, the coalition to fight in Bosnia and Kosovo, to cooperate wherever possible but to act alone if we had to.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Moving, Fighting

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• Islam is one of the fastest-growing faiths within America, and America needs to show that we're not anti-Islam. We are for, for people being free and having opportunity everywhere, that... We did that in Bosnia, we did that in Kosovo, we did that in numerous other places in the world.

  William J. Clinton

  Opportunity, America, People

  "A Conversation with Former President Bill Clinton". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. July 7, 2004.

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• I tried to go to Kosovo to establish a statue to commemorate those who died during the wars, and to discuss moving on, so we could move into a new era. But I was banned from there.

  Ivica Dacic

  War, Moving, Eras

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• The Russians are going to be expansionist whether we [USA] provoke them to it or not. Russians keep saying that we're trying to encircle them. In what sense does the independence of Kosovo, a land-locked province, former Yugoslavia, with no common border with Russia, threaten Russia with encirclement? This is insulting. In what sense does the independence of Georgia constitute an encirclement? What we are facing, and we may as well give it its right name, is what I called it earlier, a chauvinistic, theocratic in part, xenophobic Russian imperialism.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Land, Yugoslavia, Names

  Source: www.npr.org

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• After the unlawful decision to recognize Kosovo, everyone expected Russia to respond by recognizing the independence and sovereignty of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. This is true, this is how it was. Everyone was waiting for Russia's decision. And we had the moral right to make it but we did not. We were more than restrained. I don't even want to comment on it. In truth, we "swallowed" it.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Decision, Waiting

  Source: russialist.org

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• Jean Baudrillard is a friend of mine, I do not agree with him on that one! For me, the significance of the war in Kosovo was that it was a war that moved into space.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Space, Significance

  Source: ctheory.net

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• However, the Kosovo War took place in orbital space. In other words, war now takes place in 'aero-electro-magnetic space'. It is equivalent to the birth of a new type of flotilla, a home fleet, of a new type of naval power, but in orbital space!

  Paul Virilio

  War, Home, Space

  Source: ctheory.net

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• How was Kosovo recognized? They forgot about the territorial integrity of a state, as well as UN Security Council Resolution 1244, which they had themselves adopted and supported. Why could it have been done there, but not in Abkhazia and South Ossetia? Why not?

  Vladimir Putin

  Integrity, Done, Why Not

  Source: russialist.org

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• If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the mass media.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Media, Manipulation

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Just take Kosovo: back then, UN bodies decided that Kosovo should become independent of Serbia and that the interests of Serbia's central government had to be subordinated. You can read that in all the records, also in the German ones.

  Vladimir Putin

  Independent, Government, Body

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Yesterday, the country of Kosovo unveiled an 11-foot tall statue of former President Clinton. Yeah. That's right. The Clinton statue is so life-like, it's already been slapped 12 times.

  Conan O'Brien

  Country, Feet, Yesterday

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• GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Gps, Roles

  Source: ctheory.net

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• In fact, it was stated early in the first Bush [presidency], Bush I, in one of their documents they pointed out in the future, US wars are going to be against much weaker enemies. And they have to be won quickly and decisively before a popular reaction develops. And Iif you take a look, that's what's done. Look at Panama, for instance, over a couple of days; and Kosovo, no American troops.

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, War, Enemy

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I believe that the military-industrial complex is more important than ever. This is because the war in Kosovo gave fresh impetus not to the military-industrial complex but to the military-scientific complex. You can see this in China.

  Paul Virilio

  Military, War, Believe

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Indeed, the truth, the reality of the Kosovo War, was actually hidden behind all the 'humanitarian' faces.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Reality, Faces

  Source: ctheory.net

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• For the US, the Kosovo War was a success because it encouraged the development of the Pentagon's 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA). The war provided a test site for experimentation, and paved the way for emergence of what I call in Strategie de la deception 'the second deterrence'.

  Paul Virilio

  Military, War, Deception

  Source: ctheory.net

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• For me, the Asian financial crisis of 1998 and the war in Kosovo in 1999 are the prelude to the integral accident.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Asian, Financial

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I believe that the politics of intervention and the Kosovo war prompted a fresh resumption of the arms race worldwide.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Believe, Race

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Some of the most dramatic consequences of the Kosovo war are linked to the resumption of the arms race and the suicidal political and economic policies of countries like India and Pakistan where tons of money are currently being spent on atomic weaponry. This is abhorrent!

  Paul Virilio

  Country, War, Suicidal

  Source: ctheory.net

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