When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.
You can propose marriage naked or in handcuffs, but no one is going to agree to forsake all others for a man in shorts. You can’t declare war in shorts or deliver a eulogy in shorts.
There’s not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with.
A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.
They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn’t part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.
I did have a life before the Animals, and I’m trying constantly to prove that I have a life after the Animals. People tend to forget that I was the frontman with War for two years. People sort of have compartmental memories.
This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.
It’s hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There’s nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action.
In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons.
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
Having known war I know the value of peace. Having lived under government control I know the value of freedom. Having lived with hatred, terror and corruption I know the value of faith and forgiveness.
In my grandfather’s day, there was a different perspective on war and men that went into war; it was such a patriotic act to fight for your country in the Forties.
I’m not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.
I hated the draft, but at the same time, it’s something that made every American take war seriously.
We need to go to net zero carbon really quickly. And we’re also asking for a people’s assembly so people can decide how the change happens. We’ll know when governments are doing different things, it could feel like a war, a beautiful war.
Concentration of executive power, unless it’s very temporary and for specific circumstances, let’s say fighting world war two, it’s an assault on democracy.
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
George W. Bush was a very bad president. The Iraq war was a big mistake. The U.S.A. needed a political change. I hoped Barack Obama could be a good president, but I’m disappointed. He hasn’t done well.
Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.
Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we’d kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.
There never was a war that was not inward.
When the people’s representatives have to go on record and vote, it transforms our country. It is a full recognition that we are in a state of war.
