Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The decision to use military force should always be one made with the utmost caution, with U.S. interests at stake, and with the consent of Congress.
We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.
Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.
A military life has ever comported with my inclination.
The use of large-scale military force in volatile regions of underdeveloped countries is difficult to do right, has major unintended consequences and rarely turns out to be quick, effective, controlled and short lived.
Decisions are never easy. If they were easy, they wouldn't be called decisions.
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.
I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.