Detainee policy in this war is hard, it’s complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.
Category: war
Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace.
Everyone is interested in war, in that people don’t want it to happen. I’m much more interested in peace than in war but it’s important to understand why we fight.
What’s so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It’s like a shock and aw shucks campaign.
When people don’t understand that the government doesn’t have their interests in mind, they’re more susceptible to go to war.
Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.
Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.