- Democratic Leaders
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- Nov 07, 2020
American Troops Quotes
On deployment, withdrawal, and the debate in between.
These quotes sit inside real policy debates: whether a strict withdrawal timetable from Iraq would backfire, and whether committing US forces to yet another Middle Eastern conflict makes sense at all. One frames the stakes around American taxpayers' money as much as lives.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When American troops find themselves fighting for their lives, there is no better sound than an A-10 - a plane officially nicknamed the Thunderbolt II but known affectionately by the troops as the Warthog - firing its enormous 30-millimeter gun at the enemy.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
So such an American troops presence in Korea in the South and Japan, total some 100,000 should stay there forever, even after unification of Korean peninsula.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In early 1961 a new president, John F. Kennedy, was told by military leaders and civilian officials that the Kingdom of Laos - of no conceivable strategic importance to the U.S. - required the presence of American troops and perhaps even tactical nuclear weapons. Why? Because if Laos fell, Asia would go red from Thailand to Indonesia.
- Nov 07, 2020