He's crippled by debt, and crippled physically too, a souvenir from the War Between the States.
France sought to impose a monarchy over democratic Mexico while U.S. foreign power weakened during the War Between the States.
Those of you captivated by the war between the states during this 150th anniversary year can also take advantage of this week to visit historic battlegrounds such as Manassas, Chickamauga, Shiloh, Fort Sumter, and Antietam.
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Once the War Between the States destroyed the consensus understanding that federal exercise of un-enumerated powers was unconstitutional, the people, both in their status as individual citizens and in their collective status as sovereign states, no longer had an effective defense against an over-reaching central government.
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The tug-of-war between the states and the federal government has been a perennial of American politics from the founding of the republic, but striking the right balance between the two has always been best achieved in the political arena, not the courtroom.
Under the strategic circumstances of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, all that was necessary was to ensure the survivability of nuclear forces because very little could survive on the ground should a nuclear war erupt.
The folks who are most interested in a war between the United States or the West and Islam are al Qaeda.
The Cuban missile crisis was one of the most serious security crises of the past century, a situation that, if handled poorly, really could have led to nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union and the end of human civilization.
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This should help to transform the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians from a tribal war over the land they cohabit into a conflict between sovereign states.
Some suggest that they will see the end of the 50-year Cold War between capitalism and communism, between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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This is patently an effort to patch up the worst relations between the United States and Russia since the Cold War.
They insist on blurring the lines sensibly drawn by the Geneva Convention between prisoners of war (namely, military personnel from states parties who conform to the laws of war by wearing uniforms, displaying their arms, and adhering to an identified chain of command) and unlawful enemy combatants (who do not).
There was never a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, in large part because each country was deterred from attacking the other.
For the past three years, and particularly since the 2006 war between Israel and Iran's Hizbullah in Lebanon, Arab League states have been increasingly polarized around the issue of Iran.
Now that they are gone, the prospect of war between EU states has become unthinkable.
After 1872, war between Britain and the United States became almost inconceivable.
The increasingly mercurial Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has announced that - despite the long-running, immensely costly and ongoing U.S. effort to protect his kleptocratic government - in a war between Pakistan and the United States, Afghanistan would side with Pakistan.
At the height of the Cold War, the win by the pianist who grew up in Texas helped thaw the icy rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union.
But to many, many others the explorer's courage, optimism and enthusiasm were the perfect distraction from a world still bruised by World War II and nervously watching the increasingly tense standoff between the United States and Soviet Union.
The agreement details how the partnership between the United States and Afghanistan -- two sovereign powers -- will be normalized as the war comes to an end.
President Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan, where he signed an historic agreement between the United States and Afghanistan that defines how the partnership between the United States and Afghanistan will be normalized as we look beyond a responsible end to the war.
In a series of public statements in recent months, President Bush and members of his Administration have redefined the war in Iraq, to an increasing degree, as a strategic battle between the United States and Iran.
In 1921, the United States and Germany signed a peace treaty ending the state of war between them.
Last week's Iranian missile tests prompted another round of fevered speculation that war might erupt between Iran and the United States.
Right before he took office, Pena Nieto began a trip to the United States in November saying that ties between the neighboring nations must go beyond the drug war.
Countries like Japan would never even think of going to war with the United States, because to interrupt trade between our nations for even a day would have disastrous results for the Japanese economy.
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The Castros' exit, when it happens, is likely to spark a bidding war for Cuba's allegiance between Venezuela and the United States.
IMF, but may find it withheld because of the war: the United States, which has been pressing for peace talks between Congo's government and its rebels, has made known its disapproval of Zimbabwe's armed intervention.
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