The first 'Bad Company' was a kind of reaction to the Vietnam war - or at least a reaction to how Vietnam had entered the cultural life through films and books.
We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.
America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.
Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.
Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.
Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.
I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.
Imprisoned by its war on terror framework, the Bush administration supported Israel in a disastrous war against Hezbollah in Lebanon in the summer of 2006.
Sen. Edward Kennedy knows very directly. Senator Kennedy and I talked on several occasions prior to the war that my view was that the best evidence that I had seen was that Iraq indeed had weapons of mass destruction.
Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
Neoconservative Republican President George W. Bush took office determined to aggressively export American democratic values through conflict. The Iraq war, a misdirected response to 9/11, tacked trillions of dollars on to the deficit while further destabilising the Middle East.
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately; reducing the population from 8,000 to just over 300, of course, requires fewer military police soldiers.
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
War and peace type products... cannot be added into a national product total until the differences in the valuation due to differences in the institutional mechanisms that determine their respective market prices are corrected for.
To be sure, in some instances these proceedings have been unconstitutional, but we must remember that it is not the first time since a war that there have been changes in governments by such methods.
We don't really see a lot of war movies about the people that are left behind, dealing with the deaths of those who serve and the sacrifices they make.
The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.
The idea that we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong.
To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.
