The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.
William Eldridge OdomOnce we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.
William Eldridge OdomFiring off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.
William Eldridge OdomWhile people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with.
William Eldridge OdomTo say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.
William Eldridge OdomI will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.
William Eldridge OdomActs of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.
William Eldridge OdomSo the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.
William Eldridge OdomMilitary officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.
William Eldridge OdomAs many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today's war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world.
William Eldridge OdomIn reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.
William Eldridge OdomIn World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.
William Eldridge OdomSecond, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.
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