The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.
There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.
The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration.
The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past.
It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.
Patents are being used to wage war in the digital world, and as a result, patents have become a toll gate on the road of innovation.
Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are.
I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.
President Bush's war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated a large part of one fifth of the world's population.
There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.
It is because the administration is hostile to silver; and thus it is surrendering this country to the Shylocks of the Old World who have made war upon it.
We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in America. The right choice is to fight those terrorists where they are.
As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.
The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.
War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.
War is hell and waiting is hell and war is waiting.
