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You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors.

We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.

No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

I think we need to ask serious questions about how we engage militarily, when we engage militarily, and on what basis we engage militarily. What kind of intelligence do we have to justify a military engagement?