There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.
Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies!
War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.
There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.
You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics.
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.
There are few things more dangerous in a democracy than allowing a President to wage secret wars without the knowledge of the country.
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.
Our increasing ability to alter our biology and open up the processes of life is now fueling a new cultural war.
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.
The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There was no heat.
I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.
The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger.
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war?
