Essays 181 - 210
that took over the country in 1994.) Ready? Here we go. Introduction What are human rights? In the western world we often dont...
Development Programme. The ANDS, for example, is comprised of three volumes, all of which have not yet been formally and official...
cannot bring himself to intervene (Hosseini). His inability springs not so much from cowardice, though he is badly outnumbered, as...
through careful linguistic analysis. The Pashtun language is a part of the Eastern Iranian language and the people are offshoots ...
obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...
describes how and why the disastrous ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles set up the conditions that generated continued conf...
was a client war, which is defined as a war where two sides fight in a third country. In Korea, the U.S. fought directly against t...
war of ideas,"" as sums up the "thinking of the intellectuals and government para-intellectals who supported the war."v The bulk ...
Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...
was a republic, led by the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. Due to the fact that there was serious opposition to his government...
then took this reality and spinned it to contest the uncontestable and knew there could be no definitive answer, which he believed...
war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...
that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...
about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...
aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...
of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...
First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...
been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...
past twenty years, the benefit of which was first truly realized with the likes of teen idol lunch boxes; since the advent of the ...
deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...
and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...
and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...
the first of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the si...
a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...
progress of the revolution was not so much the rejection of one set of political and social values and the generation of another, ...
troops in the field; it "provided additional firepower to troops engaged on the ground," it extracted troops from engagements when...
there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...
period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...
can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...
moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...