“It's very hard to understand just what our strategy is in Syria, frankly, and on Iraq that this is Iraq's war, that the role of the United States is to help Iraq, to arm, train, support, provide air support, but this has to be Iraq's war.” WarHardStatesHelpingUnitedRolesUnited StatesSupportAirArmsStrategyTrainIraqSyria Author:David Ignatius
“The United States initially poured money and arms into Pakistan in the hope of building a major fighting force that could assist in defending Asia against communism. Pakistan repeatedly failed to live up to its promises to provide troops for any of the wars the United States fought against communist forces, instead using American weapons in its wars with India.” WarStatesFightingForceUnitedUnited StatesBuildingArmsPromiseMajorsWeaponsIndiaCommunismCommunistTroopsAsiaPakistan Book:Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding Source: Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding
“The list of American grievances is long: Pakistan developed nuclear weapons while promising the United States that it would not; the United States helped arm and train Mujahideen against the Soviets during the 1980s, but Pakistan chose to keep these militants well armed and sufficiently funded even after the Soviet withdrawal in 1989; and, from the American perspective, Pakistan's crackdown on terrorist groups, particularly after 9/11, has been halfhearted at best.” WellsLongHas BeensStatesUnitedUnited StatesGroupsPerspectiveArmsWeaponsTrainListsNuclearTerroristSovietNuclear WeaponsPakistanGrievanceWithdrawalTerrorist GroupsMujahideen Author:Husain Haqqani
“The United States of America has helped underwrite the global security for more than six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms. The service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform has promoted peace and prosperity from Germany to Korea and enabled democracy to take hold in places like the Balkans.” MenStatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesDemocracySacrificeBloodSecurityArmsCitizensSixMen And WomenProsperityDecadesGermanyUniformsUnited States Of AmericaKoreaBalkansService And Sacrifice Author:Barack Obama
“If passed by the U.N. and ratified by the U.S. Senate, the U.N. Small Arms Treaty would almost certainly force the United States to... create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.” IfsStatesForceUnitedUnited StatesStageArmsGunInternationalScalesSettingSettingsSenateTreaties Author:Paul Broun
“I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into an escape helicopter.” IfsWarStatesPeaceUnitedWonderUnited StatesArmsSymbolsClimbingFlagsAmbassadorsHelicopters Author:Ronald Reagan
“The people of the United States have been fortunate in many things. One of the things in which we have been most fortunate has been that so far, due perhaps to certain basic virtues in our traditional ways of doing things, we have managed to keep the crisis of western civilization, which has devastated the rest of the world and in which we are as much involved as anybody, more or less at arm's length.” PeopleWorldWayHas BeensStatesAmericaCertainUnitedUnited StatesVirtueArmsInvolvedCivilizationCrisisWesternDuesTraditionalFortunateIsolationLengthWestern CivilizationDevastated Author:John Dos Passos
“One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.” StatesDifferencesUnitedPayUnited StatesTakenArmsFranceCashHostageRansomAppeasement Author:William Safire
“I'm deeply grateful to live and work in this country and to the United States for opening its arms to me the way it has. I mean I think my attitude as an Aussie coming here - I've been coming here for a while now, I've been coming here for about 12 or 13 years - is that this country has afforded me and my family work and security. For that, I'm forever grateful.” ThinkingWayYearsMeanCountryStatesUnitedAttitudeUnited StatesForeverSecurityArmsMy FamilyGratefulOpeningMy AttitudeAussiesForever Grateful Author:Jennifer Lopez
“I believe in a reasonable amount of "right to bear arms". But private citizens of the United States are not allowed to own nuclear weapons. I always wanted a nuclear weapon, if I could have gotten one. I'm every other kind of power, but I'm not a nuclear power.” IfsBelieveKindStatesWantedFunnyI BelieveUnitedUnited StatesArmsBearsAmountCitizensWeaponsSmartI Believe InNuclearCleverIf I CouldReasonableNuclear WeaponsRight To Bear ArmsNuclear Power Author:Ted Turner
“Yeah, it's legal in the United States. It's part of our Constitution. You know, the right to bear arms is because that's the last form of defense against tyranny. Not to hunt. It's to protect yourself from the police.” KnowsStatesLastsFormUnitedUnited StatesArmsBearsProtectConstitutionPoliceYeahDefenseTyrannyHuntsRight To Bear ArmsProtect Yourself Author:Ice T