Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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The military can buy our diplomats some time.
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
In a chaotic world, U.S. diplomats will probably have even less contact with the people they need to reach.
War is failure of diplomacy.
Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issues.
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.
Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.
I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.
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