John Abizaid Citas

• Tenemos que asegurarnos de que la calidad y la capacidad de estas fuerzas sean lo bastante buenas como para resistir los desafíos que los insurgentes y los terroristas plantearán al nuevo gobierno iraquí.

  John Abizaid

  Government, Challenges, Quality

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• Nobody's more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them.

  John Abizaid

  Sacrifice, Troops, Command

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• La moral es buena; las tropas tienen confianza; los líderes son capaces.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Leader, Troops

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• Creo que también entiendes que una de las cosas clave que hay que hacer en Irak es crear una mentalidad de entendimiento de que el ejército tiene que estar subordinado al control civil y ser respetuoso con su propio pueblo.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Thinking, Keys

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• But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country.

  John Abizaid

  Country, Military, Opportunity

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• You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

  John Abizaid

  Years, United States, Plant

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• The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

  John Abizaid

  Police, United States, Violence

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• Estados Unidos es la nación más poderosa de la Tierra y no puede desentenderse de Oriente Medio, Asia Central y el Cuerno de África.

  John Abizaid

  Powerful, Middle East, United States

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• Por tanto, estas actividades políticas crearán fricción en sí mismas, y en este entorno de fricción habrá más violencia.

  John Abizaid

  Political, Environmental, Violence

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• Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Boss, United States

  Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know.

  John Abizaid

  Cells, People, May

  "General John Abizaid". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• Todo el mundo tiene que entender que aprendí árabe en el ejército de Estados Unidos como segunda lengua. Nunca lo hablé en casa.

  John Abizaid

  Home, Army, United States

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• Bueno, lo más difícil de hacer, como sabemos por nuestra propia experiencia en el 11-S, es protegerlo todo en todo momento.

  John Abizaid

  Protect, Hardest, Wells

  Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Type, Operations

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• Intentaremos incluir oficiales iraquíes en nuestras plantillas. Haremos todo lo posible para capacitar a las fuerzas de seguridad iraquíes para que se valgan por sí mismas y operen donde puedan solas.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Empowering, Trying

  "General John Abizaid". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline.

  John Abizaid

  Thinking, Decline, Capacity

  Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Moving, Political

  Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• But as we move from this period of what many Iraqis regard as perceived occupation, we need to move towards one of partnership.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Moving, Needs

  Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Iraq, Effort

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• Pero el principal cambio de enfoque consistirá en pasar de las operaciones de contrainsurgencia a una cooperación cada vez mayor con las fuerzas de seguridad iraquíes y a la creación de capacidad iraquí en materia de seguridad.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Keys, Focus

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• I believe we've... we've worked very hard with the Iraqis to build a better place ever since the fall of Saddam's government.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Believe, Fall

  Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• Pero está claro que el hecho de que hayamos pasado de cero fuerzas de seguridad iraquíes en servicio en mayo a las 200.000 actuales es un logro enorme, pero no es suficiente.

  John Abizaid

  Zero, Military, Accomplishment

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• As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Concerned, Extremist

  Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them.

  John Abizaid

  Fashion, Military, Iraq

  "General John Abizaid". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.

  John Abizaid

  People, Feelings, Good Enough

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