Barry McCaffrey quotes

Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing. (Barry McCaffrey)

If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

Barry McCaffrey

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

Barry McCaffrey

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

Barry McCaffrey

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

Barry McCaffrey

What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.

Barry McCaffrey

Trump is a potential disaster as commander-in-chief-uninformed, volatile, poor judgment. Hard to believe this is the candidate of a major political party.

Barry McCaffrey

The situation is perilous, uncertain, and extreme – but far from hopeless. The U. S. Armed Forces are a rock. This is the most competent and brilliantly led military in a tactical and operational sense that we have ever fielded.

Barry McCaffrey

There is no reason why the U. S. cannot achieve our objectives in Iraq. Our aim must be to create a viable federal state under the rule of law which does not: enslave its own people, threaten its neighbors, or produce weapons of mass destruction. This is a 10-year task. We should be able to draw down most of our combat forces in 3–5 years. We have few alternatives to the current U. S. strategy, which is painfully but gradually succeeding. This is now a race against time. Do we have the political will, do we have the military power, will we spend the resources required to achieve our aims?

Barry McCaffrey

We tortured people unmercifully. We probably murdered dozens of them during the course of that, both the armed forces and the CIA.

Barry McCaffrey

I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does. (Barry McCaffrey)

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Occupation: American Soldier
Born: November 17, 1942
Quotes count: 11
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