Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
World War II the atomic bomb the Cold War made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
I am one who believes that we are in fact engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.
One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear – the last war frankly if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.
When I was in Pulp I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore.
War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name a face a place and match it to families then war is not impersonal.
I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas paint them up in war colours and do er nostalgia trips to Arnhem – you know where the old paratroopers used to go – and charge them about 20 quid a time.
It was my duty to shoot the enemy and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines soldiers buddies. I'm not naive and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.
I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.