Barry McCaffrey Professions : Professor Born : November 17, 1942 Browse All Authors Top 15 quotes by Barry McCaffrey Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning. Barry McCaffrey conclusion valuable draws At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust each other. This is an enduring civil war between the Shia, the Sunni, and the Kurds. So I don't think we've got any options and we'd be ill-advised to start bombing where we really can't sort out the combatants or understand where the civilian population is. Barry McCaffrey army military war 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 borders thank-god trying 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 colombia drug problem We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones Barry McCaffrey left democracy ideas We've got a national campaign by drug legalizers, in my view, to try and use medicinal uses of drugs and legalization of hemp as a stalking horse to get in under the radar screen. Barry McCaffrey horse drug views The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent. Barry McCaffrey mexico united-states drug I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does. Barry McCaffrey fighting study doe The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration. Barry McCaffrey drug health problem Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico. Barry McCaffrey mexico levels may When I get a very generous introduction like that I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish and the Irish are very emotionally moved. My mother is Irish and she cries during beer commercials. Barry McCaffrey mother beer hands 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 priorities goal numbers If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children. Barry McCaffrey fighting war children 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 sick community enough country We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason. Barry McCaffrey behind reason today people Similar Authors Bryan Stevenson professor Bruce Greenwald professor Bruce Ames professor Brian Wansink professor Brian Schmidt professor Brian Martin professor All Authors
