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Quotes from Before the First Shots Are Fired — Anthony Zinni

born 1943 United States

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How the hell did we get here?" is the question we are left with when the smoke clears. And, inevitably, the answers we get from the men and women who lead us into these commitments are laced with excuses. "We can never know how things will turn out," they tell us with a bewildered shrug. "It's the nature of war to be unpredictable." Or they say, "The burden of all our responsibilities and the crisis response timing made clear planning and actions impossible." Or, "Every war is different." These are copouts.

Before the First Shots Are Fired (2014)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anthony Zinni (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.