People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs people do Civil War re-enactments people do what they like. I'm tired of hearing people rage on the fans. If you don't like 'Twilight,' don't buy a ticket.
Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed and war is an extension of those politics.
War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.
That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.
We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.
Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.
I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15,16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.
It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
I ended the war a horse ahead.
After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.