Colin Powell - War Quotes

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Many of my generation, the career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels seasoned in that war [Vietnam], vowed that when our turn came to call the shots, we would not quietly acquiesce in halfhearted warfare for half-baked reasons that the American people could not understand.

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War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

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