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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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- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wars of necessity are essentially unavoidable. They involve the most important national interests, a lack of promising alternatives to the use of force, and a certain and considerable price to be paid if the status quo is allowed to stand. Examples include World War II and the Korean War.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no getting around the reality that the second Iraq war was a war of choice; had it been carried out differently, it still would have been an expensive choice and almost certainly a bad one.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first Iraq War was one of necessity because vital U.S. interests were at stake, and we reached the point where no other national-security instruments were likely to achieve the necessary goal, which was the reversal of Saddam Hussein's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump is the first post-World War II American president to view the burdens of world leadership as outweighing the benefits.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trade accords had been a staple of the post-World War II world, providing a mechanism for economic growth, development, and association with friends and allies, and a means of reining in would-be adversaries who otherwise would have little incentive to act with restraint.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vietnam was not a war of choice the United States had to fight. It was clearly not central.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
They really do a disservice because these men and women came out of the Depression, they came out of the war.
- Communism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
- Emotional Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam war and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a wide-eyed imperialist who wants to see Americans manning outposts all over the world. Not outposts to freedom in the cold war cliche, but islands of stability and seas of ethnic strife. That is not what anyone should feel comfortable seeing Americans doing.
- Iran
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think war should be illegal.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020