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The articles listed below offer commentaries on war that are well worth considering: How many deaths will it take? by Bob Herbert of the New York Times A cloud over civilization: Corporate power is the driving force behind US foreign policy - and the slaughter in Iraq by J. K. Galbraith was published in The Guardian (UK) on July 15, 2004. War and Empire is the Rockford (IL) College graduation speech given by Chris Hedges of the New York Times. Opponents of war will recall with concern how strongly this excellent speech was criticized. Three Years On, War on Terrorism Looks Like a Loser by Jim Lobe was originally published on the Inter Press Service. Jim Lobe's commentaries are a standard of Foreign Policy in Focus. A Secure America in a Secure World, published by Foreign Policy in Focus, posits that the open-ended global war on terror is counterproductive, making U.S. citizens more vulnerable to terrorist attacks at home and abroad. Beyond the Fire introduces the real-life stories of 15 teenagers, now living in the U.S., who have survived war in seven war zones. These stories tell of loss, hope, fear, strength and despair—and most of all, resilience. See also Commentaries on Terrorism Books: There are several books that are classics on war and are highly recommended for a study of this subject: The Art of War by Sun-tzu The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides The Thirty Years War by C. V. Wedgewood The Civil War by Shelby Foote The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman |
"Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages." Samuel Johnson (The Idler, Nov. 11 1758) "Life is the currency of war, the means by which a nation purchases its goals when they cannot be obtained by peaceful means. Or when the nation refuses to wait for peaceful means to bear fruit." Leonard Pitts, Jr.
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