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- 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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The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
What Americans can't face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once the public loses confidence in a president's leadership at a time of war, once they don't trust him anymore, once his credibility is sharply diminished, how does he get it back?
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give to it.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on.
- Executed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.
- Censorship
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.
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- Nov 07, 2020