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War Quotes
War, remembered and reckoned with.
This topic pairs literary observation, such as a novelist's take on the social fabric depicted in a sprawling Tolstoy epic, with hard historical fact about the 1962 border conflict between China and India. Readers interested in broader historical context can visit History.
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- Cold War
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political movements and mega sporting events have always gone hand in hand. In 1980, there were Cold War boycotts in Moscow and again in 1984 during Los Angeles Games.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
- First World War
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am fascinated by Omega's history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watches for the flying corps, and the NASA side of it.
- Expectations
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- Nov 07, 2020
Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.
- Approving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I voted against the initial resolution approving the war in Iraq, I have consistently voted to support our troops with much-needed armor and supplies.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
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- Nov 07, 2020