Yet in the end, covert action can achieve nothing more than delay.

You may be surprised by the success our direct actions have achieved so far.

It is difficult to find actions to achieve this objective without hurting the Chinese people.

"We should have realistic expectations about what a single action can achieve," he said.

There was no agreement, in fact, on just how much military action could achieve.

Let us not allow our reactions to deliver that which the terrorists' actions can never achieve.

We therefore need less talk and more action to achieve tangible results.

I would like to concentrate on what is the least that action should achieve.

But the public is divided on whether this military action will achieve its goal.

We knew the human and economic costs would be high, but not whether military action would achieve any or all of America's political objectives.