The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.
Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.
I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
The mother's battle for her child with sickness with poverty with war with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle waged in love and in the passion for survival.
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
9/11 was a deliberate carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.
Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul later as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.
The war on terror I believe will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
It is art that makes life makes interest makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.