- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Lincoln is among history's truly great men, he didn't achieve that stature until his final three years. This was when his long-held antipathy to slavery cohered into a dedicated hostility that gave larger purpose to the Civil War and also confirmed the logic of Lincoln's destiny.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Struggling to end the war and to eliminate slavery once and for all by way of the 13th Amendment, with the amendment's prospective passage undermining the effort to make peace with the Confederacy and vice versa, Lincoln embodied the Great Man theory that leftists disdain.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The media that's having this hysterical reaction to James Mattis retiring is the same media in many cases, the same politicians in many cases, who cheered our nation into a war in Iraq that turned out to be a catastrophe.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever there is an international crisis - an earthquake, a flood, a war - Americans provide more assistance than the people of any other nation.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few nations have been as reliant on nuclear power as Korea. In many ways, cheap and reliable atomic energy helped make possible the 'miracle on the Han River' - i.e., the swift post-World War II economic surge of Korea.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is Mr. Trump could simply sit in the Oval Office for four years like a potted plant, and that would be a vast improvement over the Obama agenda, which was almost in every case - from tax increases to spending stimulus bills to Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, the war on fossil fuels, and so on - bad for growth.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The war on driving includes calls for carbon and gas taxes, tens of billions of gas tax money diverted to inefficient and little-used mass transit projects, and opposition to building new roads and highways.
- Cold War
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they had not been confronted with civil war.
- Nov 07, 2020
After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.
- Cold War
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them.
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- Nov 07, 2020