When I entered West Point’s Thayer Gate – and army life – 20 years ago last month, America was not at war. Not really anyway. Back then, when a 17-year-old’s mother (had to) sign him into the military, he might expect some peacekeeping duty in Kosovo or – at worst – an unlucky street battle … Continue reading "A Life and Nation Transformed: 20 Years On From West Point’s Gates and the War on Terror"
Palestinian families facing ethnic cleansing from their Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem on Monday rejected a so-called “compromise” offer from Israel’s Supreme Court, which would allow them to remain in their homes if they recognize as rightful owners the Israeli settler group trying to steal the properties.
Back in 1989, a large group of Americans, composed mostly of Republican conservatives, went to Moscow to help Russians understand the “values of Western civilization.” The delegation included Sens. Phil Gramm of Texas and Bob Kasten of Wisconsin, Ambassadors Faith Whittlesey and Frank Shakespeare, journalists and even some exiled Soviet dissidents. At that time, America … Continue reading "Fallout From the Biden-Merkel Deal on Nord Stream 2"
Five people were killed, and another two were wounded.
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==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Thomas Hobbes: Divine law is the fulfilling of peace Thomas Hobbes: There was never such a time of war all over the world ==== Thomas HobbesFrom Leviathan I put for a generall inclination of all mankind, a perpetuall and restlesse desire of […]
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==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Erasmus: Selections on war ==== Desiderius ErasmusFrom In Praise of FollyUnknown translator Mars in battle gives complete victory but to one party; nay, he often makes them both losers. **** Farther, when the Christian church has been all along first planted, then confirmed, and since established by the […]
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Erasmus: Selections on war ==== Desiderius ErasmusFrom In Praise of FollyUnknown translator (Folly speaks) To enlarge farther, I may well presume to aver, that there are no considerable exploits performed, no useful arts invented, but what I am the respective author and manager of: as first, what […]
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