“If the war on terror is endless, you could forget about democracy.” IfsWarForgetDemocracyTerrorEndlessWar On Terror Author:Robert Scheer
“Democrats can give us wars, you know? Democrats can play the false patriotism card.” KnowsGivingWarPlayDemocratCards Author:Robert Scheer
“Eisenhower was a pretty peace-oriented president. Truman was a pretty hawkish. I would argue, if we had more time, I would argue Truman had a lot to do with getting the Cold War going.” IfsWarPresidentColdArguingMore TimeCold WarTrumanPresident Truman Author:Robert Scheer
“Eisenhower provided the first break in the Cold War, by bringing Khrushchev to the United States, in humanizing the Soviets; and then Nixon, by making the opening to China; and then Reagan, even meeting in Reykjavik with Gorbachev and acknowledging that nuclear weapons are a horror. So I won't accept that Republicans just escalate. Republicans, at least when they were more moderate, they were maybe even more isolationist, they sometimes brought sanity to the debate. We don't have that now. We have - all these Republicans have gone off the neoconservative deep end.” FirstsWarEndsSometimesStatesUnitedAcceptingBreakUnited StatesGoneColdRepublicanHorrorWeaponsMeetingsChinaNuclearDebateOpeningSanityNuclear WeaponsCold WarModeratesGorbachevReykjavik Author:Robert Scheer
“It takes no courage to make war, particularly if you're not going to go and your children are not going to go.” IfsChildrenWarOur ChildrenYour Children Author:Robert Scheer
“Richard Nixon even before becoming president, before meeting Henry Kissinger, he said, "This is ridiculous. Communism is nationalist. The Chinese and Russian and Yugoslav and Cuban and - none of these communists get along, and the Koreans and the Vietnamese, and we can do business with them." And then he opened up to China, and that's when the Cold War started.” SaidWarPresidentCan DoColdBecomingMeetingsChinaRidiculousCommunismChineseCommunistCold WarKoreanCubanVietnameseKissingerHenry KissingerBecoming President Author:Robert Scheer
“It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.” ThinkingYearsWarRunningStrongPaperCriticizeColumns Author:Robert Scheer
