It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.

One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.