Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase i….
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….
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….
Everyone has something they can't live without..
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..
The Earth is blue... how wonderful. It is amazing.
Those that innovate the future understand history the best..
Media turned against Israel was a gradual process. And it has gotten worse over the years. I think the main development was the 1982 Lebanon War..
All I am is what I'm going after..
I find when death comes, it is usually a woman that is called for..