As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality.
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.
Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
The world has already been saved from war. The question is how Christians can and should live in a world of war as a people who believe that war has been abolished.
After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
Every veteran is a hero.
Most people aren't these grandstanding heroes.
My heroes were all in the theatre.
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.
I argue that even as the war is framed in certain ways to control and heighten affect in relation to the differential grievability of lives, so war has come to frame ways of thinking multiculturalism and debates on sexual freedom, issues largely cons...
You may think you know someone very well. But there'll always be parts you can't see. Sometimes she'll look weak, but she is hiding her strength. Sometimes she'll seem strong... and yet she's so fragile on the inside.
Some printed pages are medical plasters to extract pain, others are tourists' tickets out of boredom or loneliness to exhilarating adventures, still others are diplomas for promotion and drilling ideas into a quick-step.
Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That's not cynicism, that's maturity.
I keep thinking about the march I joined today. It's bigger and stronger than war. That's why it will win. The people must be the ones to win, not the war, because war has nothing to do with humanity. War is something inhuman.
I'm always attracted to anti-hero roles.
