George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
basically capture democratic hostage iran loses matter party politics
American politics as you know . . . is very often a matter of capture the flag. The party that loses the flag, as the Democratic party did basically from 1972 through the Iran hostage crisis, is in trouble.
teaching iran iraq
In the annals of American blunders, the Bay of Pigs may have been even more feckless, and the invasion of Iraq more costly, but we cannot yet calculate the cost of teaching Iran and others, by our role in the casual overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi, the peril of not having nuclear weapons.
beginning connection harder iran
We mishandled the Iran connection from the beginning and there has been a screw-up. We have made it harder for the Indians.
bush challenge convince dangerous faced iran rest strategic united
The strategic challenge the Bush administration faced was to convince the rest of the world that Iran is more dangerous than the United States.
against creative iranian offense possible strategy
It's part of a very intelligent, creative Iranian strategy - to go on the offense in every way possible and mobilize other actors against the US.
cities face iran missile next north possibly threats variety wider
Over the next 15 years ... our cities will face ballistic missile threats from a wider variety of actors -- North Korea, probably Iran and possibly Iraq,
energy gold iran major political problems safe
Gold is a safe haven. We have major political problems in Iran and energy problems in Nigeria.
capability combined gaining indigenous iranian last materials means missile recent russian sooner success technology
Iran's success in gaining technology and materials from Russian companies, combined with recent indigenous Iranian advances, means it could have a medium-range missile capability much sooner than I assessed last year.
thinking iran iraq
If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.
football gun iran
We don't really know what Iran are capable of when the gun is put to their head
war israel iran
We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.
mean iran sanctions
As you know, we don't have relationships with Iran. I mean, that's - ever since the late '70s, we have no contacts with them, and we've totally sanctioned them. In other words, there's no sanctions - you can't - we're out of sanctions.
country israel iran
Israel is a solid ally of the United States. We will rise to Israel's defense, if need be. So this kind of menacing talk [by the President of Iran] is disturbing. It's not only disturbing to the United States, it's disturbing for other countries in the world, as well. Asked whether he meant the U.S. would rise to Israel's defense militarily, Bush said: "You bet, we'll defend Israel."
iran tables united-states
This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table