Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Michael Ledeen.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Michael Arthur Ledeen is an American historian, and neoconservative foreign policy analyst. He is a former consultant to the United States National Security Council, the United States Department of State, and the United States Department of Defense. He held the Freedom Scholar chair at the American Enterprise Institute where he was a scholar for twenty years and now holds the similarly named chair at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He was very close to Antonio Martino.
Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
It's hard not to be in favor of taking down monsters.
China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.
The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them.
The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.
Fighting back against Iran is difficult and costly. No American president from Carter to Obama has been willing to take it on.
I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently.
If you're convinced that you face bad options, then by all means take the least bad.