Obama had campaigned against Bush’s ideas and approaches. But, Donilon, for one, thought that Obama had perhaps underestimated the extent to which he had inherited George W. Bush’s presidency – the apparatus, personnel and mind-set...

The best way to support the troops is to not send them off to die in the first place. And the second best way to support them only to send them off to die when...

When your enemy is tough make your actions rough, you will meet at the same point.

The most self confident aces began to wonder when their turn would come.. Faced by the empty chairs of men you had laughed and joked with at lunch. And, miraculously, you were still there. Until...

They asked for a history, they shall have my history. If someone else will have the battle take place on a spring-green field with pennants at the lance points and songs sung over the honored...

Vita ya dhambi hupiganwa katika uwanja wa akili na katika uwanja wa mwili kati ya Shetani na Mungu. Hutumia silaha kuu ya uongo na silaha kuu ya ukweli. Mungu anataka tuujue ukweli. Shetani anataka tuujue...

…’you have to ask yourself though, who are we to stop a war?’I sigh, wishing that the glittering pinpricks above us were truly stars. It was rare to see any due to the endless cloud...

The blazing sun beat down on the concrete of the museum’s front yard- Reverend Ryu Yosop felt as if the heat were sucking up all the moisture in his brain and heart. What different colors...

War,” Beranabus murmurs, face crinkling. “Most humans know nothing of true warfare. They wage their silly territorial battles, kill each other ruthlessly and freely, and consider themselves experts on war and suffering. But the real...

If my legs get blown off in war, I’d like to have them replaced with a coffee table. Half man/half furniture, I’ll be in the living room if you need me.

War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.

I wish Merry was here,” he heard himself saying, and quick thoughts raced through his mind, even as he watched the enemy come charging to the assault. “Well, well, now at any rate I understand...

Can America get back to a point where politicians are honest? Not unless that point is the tip of a sword.

The best gift that we can give to our enemy is not war, but forgiveness and peace.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

The most ignorant and wasted youthful generation is the very one that the older generation uses to create social conflicts to their own youthful detriment!

If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay.

Nearly all soldiers, and this applies even to professional soldiers in peacetime, have a sane attitude towards war. They realise that it is disgusting, and that it may often be necessary

Science began with a gadget and a trick. The gadget was the wheel; the trick was fire. We have come a long way from the two-wheel cart to the round-the-world transport plane, or from the...

Distance, the dissonance insurmountable,would be not the end,but a magnet.When fingertips kiss,they imprint and cement something,that cannot be disintegrated. Time becomes a phantom,the wind becomes an anchor,and old dreams- blankets of warmth.Lull with me, Lady,there...

The Government set the stage economically by informing everyone that we were in a depression period, with very pointed allusions to the 1930s. The period just prior to our last ‘good’ war. … Boiled down,...

…and how is a man to know the habits of their God, whether He smites suddenly or withholds, if you mishandle the things set apart, the objects of His people He is jealous of.

War in Bosnia was over some 13 years ago and yet war criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic still live in Europe freely.

Appearances can be misleading. You just never know what’s inside someone until he’s tested.

We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real and important to us. And good boots are hard to come by.” – All Quiet On The Western...

In war, the only true victory is peace.

Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.

Below the bows of the Arrawa a child’s coffin moved onto the night stream. Its paper flowers were shaken loose by the wash of a landing craft carrying sailors from the American cruiser. The flowers...

When you lose your enemy, it’s like you lost your love!

We gave him 12 years to do what he promised to do at the end of the Gulf War, which was to disclose the weapons of mass destruction.

I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome...

Boys, at war, so far away, will naturally droop, both in body and mind, from lack of a particular girl’s snuggling and cuddling.

Much blood has been spilled over words, and a great deal of it over the word ‘God.’ (125)

Our task over the next few generations is to transform the world of independent states in which we live into some sort of genuine international community. If we succeed in creating that community, however quarrelsome,...

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them back. She began to feel an urgency, a need to seize an opportunity. Before anyone else did.

the main thing is to make history not to write it

If everyone fought only for his own convictions, there would be no wars.

I am death; I am this blood, these ravaged lands, and this wanton destruction. – Panchali Draupadi

Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the past, is not like that. It isn’t flat or linear....

A program of “disarmament,” while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement – an obviously fantastic assumption!- that would by no meansprevent a...

Memedin ayağında yarım çarıklar.Memet yüzükoyun yatmış sayıklar.Memet beygir fışkısından arpa ayıklar.Arpayı götürüp derede yıkar.Güneşte kurutup yiyecek Memet.

War takes so many more casualties than just the dead.

It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to...

‎I know you’re still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You’re a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want...

Saints preserve us,’ Dr. Kellen said, and squeezed Galen’s shoulder. ‘What have we done to our youth?

jika sebuah mata harus dibalas dengan sebuah mata, hanya akan membuat seluruh dunia ini buta

War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon...

Today is yesterday’s victory, yesterday is tomorrow’s conquest, and tomorrow is today’s war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome.

Sometimes, a war saves people.