Anthony Zinni
Anthony Zinni
Anthony Charles Zinniis a retired United States Marine Corps general and a former Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command. In 2002, he was selected to be a special envoy for the United States to Israel and the Palestinian Authority...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth17 September 1943
CountryUnited States of America
buck pass ship
The refueling of that ship in Aden, ... ...Was my decision. I pass the buck on to nobody.
certainly generals speaking
There are certainly generals out there who don't like me speaking out.
might legitimacy united-nations
The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.
internal might military problems reasons
That decentralization was done so they insured they had control, ... I think it was done more for internal reasons and internal military problems they thought they might have than for any military preparations they had for us.
military isis two
If you put two brigades on the ground right now with U.S. forces, they would push ISIS back into Syria in a heartbeat.
thinking iraq secret
I think it's (Israeli pressure for invading Iraq) the worst kept secret in Washington, everybody I talked to in Washington has known and fully knows what their agenda was and what they were trying to do; because I mentioned the Neo-Conservatives who describe themselves as Neo-Conservatives, I was called, Anti-Semitic.
pride building rivalry
Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit.
mean giving may
You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.
thinking needs mogadishu
I think the Mogadishu effect, if I had to define it, is we need to be more careful where we decide to commit US forces, and for what reason, and to make a clear judgment as to what we can and can't do and whether it's in our interests, or we could afford the resources that it would take to make the situation right.
eye thinking understanding
I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.
lying war iraq
In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.
military real pay-the-price
We will pay for this [climate change] one way or another. We will pay to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions today and we'll have to take an enormous hit of some kind. Or we will pay the price later in military terms. And that will involve human lives. There will be a human toll. There is no way out of this that does not have real costs attached to it.
war government years
Yet, here we are, long and difficult years into that conflict," ... "we still have not created the state we promised them. On the contrary, our costly and valiant efforts have produced an outcome our government did not predict or intend-a failed state spinning out of control into anarchy and civil war.
accept admitting critical culture grow happening judgment learning military mistakes poor throughout worries
We grow up in a culture where accountability, learning to accept responsibility, admitting mistakes and learning from them was critical to us. When we don't see that happening it worries us. Poor military judgment has been used throughout this mission.