I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?
It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
Darth Vader: All too easy.
[On the asteroid] Princess Leia: I have a bad feeling about this...
Darth Vader: Bring my shuttle.
C-3PO: R2, why did you have to be so brave?
The Emperor: And now, young Skywalker... you will die.
C-3PO: I have decided that we shall stay here.
Padmé: Obi-Wan... there... is good in him. I know there is... still... [Padme dies]
I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.
Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
I grew up with 'Star Wars' and was a massive fan of the original films.
After the 'war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a 'Peace to end Peace.
We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.
I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.
America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.
Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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.
