The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.
Stephen Kinzer
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Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.
Marvin Olasky
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Both grandfathers fought in different wars. My mother's father fought in World War II, and then my father's father fought in Korea. And they're both these country boys, one from rural Tennessee and one from rural Louisiana - and they never went back home.
Dee Rees
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We are launching a campaign called Wind, Not War, which is about the alternatives to a fossil-fuels-based economy and looking at wind, an alternative energy, as key to that in terms of issues of global climate change as well as issues of democracy.
Winona LaDuke
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
Barry Commoner
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Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.
Ann Druyan
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I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.
Tim O'Brien
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The Bay of Pigs is one of America's most infamous Cold War blunders, and it has been studied, debated, and dramatized endlessly ever since.
Robert Dallek
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I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan.
Jay Garner
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I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
Bono
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Iraq is fighting a war against terrorism. We are trying our best to fight them. We are trying our best to fight outlaws in our country.
Haider al-Abadi
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We are at war and, like it or not, that is a fact. It is not Bush's war, and it is not Obama's war. It is our war, and we can't run away from it.
John F. Kelly
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Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?
Peter Tosh
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Was Castro sincere when, during his guerrilla war, he swore that he was not a Communist? If so, when did he change, and why? Looking back, does he believe he might have chosen a better course?
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The United States of America, justifiably and proudly, went to war in Afghanistan in early winter of 2001. The United States invaded Iraq on a false premise in the spring of 2003.
Mike Barnicle
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Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.
Donald Rumsfeld
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
Wislawa Szymborska
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Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.
Eamon de Valera
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I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
Jefferson Davis
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In my experience, academia is a World War 1 kind of a domain, and I do my best to avoid all that trench warfare.
Timothy Morton
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Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president - pilloried for the failed war in Vietnam and criticized for grandiose reforms conservatives denounce as the epitome of federal social engineering that costs too much and does too little.
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I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.
Janine di Giovanni
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The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.
Bob Livingston
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If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.
Hamid Karzai
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