There are pros and cons about the policy decision whether to follow the Geneva Conventions in a war where they do not legally apply. Among the pros m….
It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is gover….
First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully..
While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for….
We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a thea….
Everyone has something they can't live without..
We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hector….
The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to….
Young people in college were not even born when the Berlin Wall fell, and so they are not really cognizant of the Cold War and what that meant. Now, ….
Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?.
The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils..
When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks..
Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechan….
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness..
Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large s….
After the war I was going to make up for lost time. But the time I spent away, it's still lost. No matter what I do, it stays lost..
The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't..
We read best what we read most..
When war comes, reason is regarded as treason..
The Earth is blue... how wonderful. It is amazing.
Those that innovate the future understand history the best..