Essays 541 - 570
reason to go to war with the country. Then it was clearly Saddam who was the culprit, although interestingly enough, "Bin Laden an...
need or desire for war, aside from any economic or resource or religious gain. Human beings, perhaps first and foremost, are soc...
potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...
the waging of war, but by the ability to wage war; not necessarily by the demonstration of our defense capabilities, but by the vi...
or her to make allowances for the various aspects of the book that seem somewhat sensationalized or overblown. It will also serve ...
see. But the reporter was in Germany at the end of WWI and found the social and economic conditions there to be deplorable. The co...
as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dread...
describes how and why the disastrous ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles set up the conditions that generated continued conf...
war of ideas,"" as sums up the "thinking of the intellectuals and government para-intellectals who supported the war."v The bulk ...
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...
war in history (Sulzberger, 1966). World Peace it seems would be an ever elusive dream and our military exploits in Korea would b...
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...
Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...
and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...
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...
and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...
Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...
that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...
Iraq fares will determine the direction of the global war on terrorism" (Zuckerman, 2007). Zuckerman concludes that because of th...
by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...
get their forces together and attack from the west" (The Second World War). Common wisdom says that Germany stomped Poland flat w...
et al, 2000). And the settlers brought diseases with them against which the Indians had no defense, wiping them out in large numbe...
Triple Alliance. Slavery was abolished as a result of the war but the military took greater and greater predominance in Brazil. ...
hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...
military action in the province if the tribal leaders would promise not to give shelter to foreign elements or allow border attack...
summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...
the relationship between North and South Korea. The deteriorating relationships between North and South Korea was particu...
that the crime that goes with it is only relevant because drugs are illegal. If drug use was decriminalized, then there would be n...