William Eldridge Odom Quotes

• Como han señalado muchos críticos, el terrorismo no es un enemigo. Es una táctica. Dado que los propios Estados Unidos tienen un largo historial de apoyo a terroristas y de uso de tácticas terroristas, los eslóganes de la actual guerra contra el terrorismo simplemente hacen que los Estados Unidos parezcan hipócritas ante el resto del mundo.

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  Guerra, Largo, Enemigo

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• Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

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  War, Democracy, Parliament

  "The Mythical End to the Politics of Fear" by Norman Solomon, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2006.

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• I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

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  Pensamiento, Gente, Oficina

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• Nunca he pertenecido a un partido. No tengo afiliación a ningún partido.

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  Party, Affiliation

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• La noción de derecho de propiedad de la tierra en el mundo árabe es diferente a la de Europa.

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  Europe, Land, Rights

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• Los militares de distintos países, cuando se conocen, tienden a enamorarse, a convertirse en sociedades de admiración mutua, a expensas de las realidades.

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  Country, Falling In Love, Military

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• Recuerdo haber servido en Vietnam en esa guerra, y muchos de nosotros a nivel de teniente coronel mayor, coronel, estábamos frustrados porque nadie en Estados Unidos quería debatirlo de esa manera.

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  War, Frustrated, Vietnam

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• Disparar 1.000, 500 o 2.000 cabezas nucleares a los pocos minutos siempre me ha parecido una forma absurda de ir a la guerra.

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  War, Way, Nuclear

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• So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.

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  Nice, Years, Ideas

  "Q&A: Odom on an Iraq Exit Strategy". Interview with Bernard Gwertzman, www.nytimes.com. May 7, 2004.

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• While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with.

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  Responsibility, Ties, People

  "Q&A: Odom on an Iraq Exit Strategy". Interview with Bernard Gwertzman, www.nytimes.com. May 7, 2004.

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• Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

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  War, Hippie, Regimes

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• In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.

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  War, Iraq, Soldier

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• En segundo lugar, las últimas encuestas realizadas allí muestran que la mayoría de los iraquíes quieren que nos vayamos precipitadamente.

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  Second Chance, Majority, Want

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• Decir que ahora confías en el sistema de mando y control militar ruso porque algún general ruso te lo ha dicho desde el fondo de su corazón, me parece de lo más irreal.

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  Trust, Military, Heart

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• I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.

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  Military, Aggravation, Political

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• In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.

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  Reality, Thinking, Serious

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• The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.

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  Presidente

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