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After every major conflict – World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union – what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts. – Leon Panetta

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You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world. – Leon Panetta

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Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that its much more partisan and much more divided. – Leon Panetta

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Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. Thats really the measure of success for the United States. – Leon Panetta

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Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive. – Arthur Henderson

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Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam. – Ron Paul

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And Im a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. Thats the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War. – Shelby Foote

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There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult – to begin a war and to end it. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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