Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
There are people who cannot forget as neither do I the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was first that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer and a conspirator and a liar.
I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things but not as conservative.
I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.
The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem you fix it. That is the job you have been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it for you.
This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow this war will still be with you.
I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.
Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that – we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard but we take our leisure time seriously.
