“No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.”– Henry A. Kissinger Related Quotes “We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.”– William Westmoreland “Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.”– James Buchan “Politics is the womb in which war develops.”– Karl Von Clausewitz