Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don’t have to declare war. You’re just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government.
After World War II, a lot of people moved to the cities for work and abandoned the old vineyards. Then in the 1950s and 1960s, wineries were paid to produce volume at a cheap price. That’s when the Lambruscos and bad Chianti were popular.
The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, ‘A terrible beauty.’
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Soviet mathematics was particularly good in the second half of the 20th century, basically because of the arms race, because the Soviet Union realized… World War II created the conditions for the Soviet Union to become a superpower.
Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents.
Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.
‘Jihad’ can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
Yesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which will destroy the earth. We can adapt atomic energy to produce electricity and move ships, but can we control its use in anger?
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth – that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
We defended our allies in Europe for 40 years during the worst days of the Cold War – very threatening days of the Cold War – and nothing happened. So deterrence does work.
The social safety net was created by a united society in the aftermath of the Second World War. It came out of a British sense of fairness.
I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go… It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, ‘Wait a second? Didn’t we just get through with that?’
All I watch is war movies. The stories be touching… just to see what they go through on both sides of the fence.
Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
I believe that democracies do not go to war; that’s the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community’s best guarantee of stability in Asia.
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
A great war shall burst forth from fishes of steel. Machines of flying fire, lobsters, grasshoppers, mosquitoes. The mass attacks shall be repulsed in the woods, when no child in Germany shall obey any longer.
I saw some war heroes… John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn’t tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11.
The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.
The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
