I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf War.
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.
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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.
In many ways, the crumbling of the institution of marriage is the real 'war on women.' Marriage is the civilizing influence for men and for families.
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.
To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.
The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.
I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.
