When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.
And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.
The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.
We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.
I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
As the war on terrorism spreads and prolongs, the fruits of ending the threat of terrorism around the world will be tempered with a whole new series of problems to be addressed and resolved.
We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.
I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.
Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.
I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it's a mistake for me.
So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.
The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.
For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.
Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.
I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.
