He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
War's a racket. No doubt. But war is a racket for the politicians, not the soldiers.
Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.
Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents.
It's interesting, isn't it? Being in the world.
who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits
I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.
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.
Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.
So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.
I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal.
I found it marvelous that the great supporters of America in Europe are, of course, those countries that American consistency and firmness in the Cold War ended up liberating.
The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.
The art of chess is akin to the art of war itself; full of strategy and cunning, yet clever placements.
Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind.
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.
