Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.
I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.
Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.
Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's ...
The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region during World War I and who, at its close, principally fashioned its peace. It was a peace presaged by the nickname given the region...
War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplic...
King: Hey, Taylor. How in the fuck you get here anyway? Why, you look educated. Chris Taylor: I volunteered for it. King: You did what? Chris Taylor: I volunteered. I dropped out of college, and told them I wanted the infantry, combat, and Vietnam. C...
We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.
All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.
The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.
For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.
The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work.
My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.
Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.
My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning of World War I when they were still very young.
