America's War for the Greater Middle East Quotes

“If you will the end, you must will the means.”
― Andrew J. Bacevich, America's War for the Greater Middle East

“Like the present-day GOP, the Northern Alliance was a loose coalition of unsavory opportunists, interested chiefly in acquiring power.”
― Andrew J. Bacevich, America's War for the Greater Middle East

“The line in the sand that Carter drew along Iran’s Zagros Mountains now stretches from Central Asia through the Middle East and across the width of Africa. That the ongoing enterprise may someday end—that U.S. troops will finally depart—appears so unlikely as to make the prospect unworthy of discussion. Like the war on drugs or the war on poverty, the War for the Greater Middle East has become a permanent fixture in American life and is accepted as such.”
― Andrew J. Bacevich, America's War for the Greater Middle East

“shillyshallying”
― Andrew J. Bacevich, America's War for the Greater Middle East

“egregious Iraqi misbehavior”
― Andrew J. Bacevich, America's War for the Greater Middle East

“haphazard”
― Andrew J. Bacevich, America's War for the Greater Middle East