Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad.
I worked for MI6 in the Sixties during the great witch-hunts when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
In every war zone that I've been in there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.
During the Cold War we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster war from all lands with her hated associates rapine and insatiable ambition!
The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful one can wage a pitiless war but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
After every major conflict – World War I World War II Korea Vietnam the fall of the Soviet Union – what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.
I ended the war a horse ahead.
It is well known that in war the first casualty is truth – that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
We are Americans when we go to war and when we return we are Mexicans.
