Quotes about war
war world united-states
There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism. Noam Chomsky
war people sticks
It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick.
war iraq firsts
The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.
war evil survival
The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.
war fall law
Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.
war pakistan would-be
A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
war resistance argument
The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.
war numbers analysts
A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.
war demand accepting
In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.
war thinking world
In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.
war cities occupation
In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes instantly, with approval.
war enemy reason
The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well.
war people political
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
war laos secrecy
Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.
war yale administration
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.
war mean soldier
There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.
war may events
Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.
war people october
On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.
war miracle nuclear
It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
war two survival
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
war years labor-force
You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There was a decade after the Civil War and before north/south compact essentially recriminalized black life. During the Second World War there was a need for free labor so there was a freeing up of the labor force. Blacks benefitted from it.
war years america
In fact if you look at Reagan's global war on terrorism it very quickly turned into a massive terrorist war: [by us] Central America, South Africa, the Middle East, all U.S.-backed terrorism. That's one of the reasons why it disappeared from history and why the standard line is that Bush 43 declared the war on terror. Actually he just repeated what Reagan had said 20 years earlier.
war soldier clinton
We're at war with the ISIS caliphate that sprang up because Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama precipitously withdrew all American forces from Iraq and created a vacuum of power, that ISIS was able to overrun vast territories that our soldiers had won in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Mike Pence
war military navy
We have the smallest navy since 1916, we have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War. We've got to work with the congress and Donald Trump will, to rebuild our military and project American strength in the world.
war people care
We've seen an economy stifled by more taxes, more regulation, a war on coal and a failing health care reform come to be known as Obamacare and the American people know that we need to make a change.
war reality hiking
The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.
war struggle challenges
This is a very challenging time in the life of our nation. Weakened America's place in the world after the leadership of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on the world stage has been followed by an economy that is truly struggling, stifled by an avalanche of more taxes, more regulations, Obamacare, the war on coal and the kind of trade deals that put American workers in the back seat.
war moving america
In this new war, our enemy's platoons infiltrate our borders, quietly blending in with visiting tourists, students, and workers. They move unnoticed through our cities, neighborhoods, and public spaces. They wear no uniforms. Their camouflage is not forest green, but rather it is the color of common street clothing. Their tactics rely on evading recognition at the border and escaping detection within the United States. Their terrorist mission is to defeat America, destroy our values and kill innocent people. John Ashcroft
war goal community
The goal of terror is not traditional territorial enlargement; rather the war target of the terrorist is the dismemberment of the will of the community it terrorizes.
war media brave
This is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire Joe Scarborough
war mistake iraq
The irony is that what was supposed to be a great vulnerability of Hillary Clinton , which the Iraq war vote which she has acknowledged was a terrible mistake, has lent an aura of strength in a funny way. Joe Conason
war people zombie
When the first movie to show the anger people have about the war is a grade Z zombie movie, that tells you all you need to know about how afraid of ruffling anyone's feathers people in the movie business are today. Joe Dante
war nursing doctors
The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable. Jodi Picoult