Between SOPA, ACTA, The Megaupload shutdown and the massive Anonymous retaliatory attacks, two entrenched sides seem to be settling into a long, hard war.
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But his book shows just how hard the war against terror will be.
The Democrats' retreat came after months of hard pounding over war funding.
And today we pay humble tribute to the more than 6, 200 Americans in uniform who have given their lives in this hard decade of war.
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He was a lifelong Democrat, a representative of that dying breed, the hard-headed cold war liberal.
First, it is hard to run as war leader and tax-cutter-in-chief at the same time.
But it has been very hard for post-war leaders to swallow - even, it turns out, politicians who claim to be free-marketers.
The warm space overflows with espionage books and hard-won Cold War-era collectibles.
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Building a consensus among 19 nations even for an air war seemed hard enough at the time, so any commitment to start a ground invasion to liberate Kosovo would have been politically much more divisive.
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We believe that by educating the public by relating our personal experiences, we can reveal the hard, ugly truth about war.
We have faced hard decisions about peace and war, rising competition in the world economy, and the health and welfare of our citizens.
"In their absence, it's hard to see how the war could be sustained, " says Loren Thompson, a defense analyst at the Lexington Institute in Virginia.
The years of World War II were a hard, heroic and gallant time in the life of our country.
It's hard to imagine veterans of any war would want to shake hands with their enemies, much less return battle souvenirs to their families.
It has been hard to judge the merits of war or tax cuts by the standards of what the administration said about them at the time.
Keynes saw the world learn that lesson the hard way in the years after World War I.
As in any war, each side has hard-liners that do nothing more than lend credence and legitimacy to the other side.
Even the lower post-cold-war recruiting targets have proved hard to hit.
But the historical post-war zeal combined with sheer hard work that have made the Franco-German couple endure so far can no longer be taken for granted.
Not only are people making ever more graphics-hungry demands on your servers, but NVIDIA and AMD are locked in an unending spec war that can make it hard to keep up with the market.
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Strangely, it is hard to reconcile the close historical proximity of war with peace.
Yet, on the day the war began, and on many hard days that followed, the outcome was far from certain.
When she began to write, shortly after the war had ended, it was hard to get hold of cream, let alone capers.
Until the war is over, it is hard to see how arguing about the exact size of government budget deficits will soothe the nervous financial markets.
And no wonder that the Obama administration is looking for an exit plan from from the war in Afghanistan, which is hard enough to fight without having an exposed flank on the Pakistani border.
Making peace is hard enough, but tackling the underlying causes of war is even harder.
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