Michael Ledeen Quotes

#1. Fighting back against Iran is difficult and costly. No American president from Carter to Obama has been willing to take it on.

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#2. The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

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#3. If you're convinced that you face bad options, then by all means take the least bad.

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#4. So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

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#5. It's hard not to be in favor of taking down monsters.

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#6. Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.

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#7. The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them.

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#8. I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently.

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#9. China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

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#10. Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.

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