And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.
It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with him many times - that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events.
Well, I asked him who would start the war first.
War is not a thing one wants.
He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.
George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam.
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country.
And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia.