Only the faithful can decide whether Islam is a religion of peace or war (historically it has been both).
However, seizing the correct historical moment to decide on peace or war marks the difference between leaders and ordinary men.
But at one time or another, we have all been left behind while the one we love has gone off to train for battle, or keep the peace, or wage war.
The Internet itself is not inherently -- to state the obvious -- is not inherently a force for democracy or oppression, for war or for peace.
Convincing empirical evidence for the peace-interest hypothesis is a tall order as controlling for all the other factors which make for war or peace is difficult.
And Le Monde in Paris said Bush doesn't know hot to make war or peace.
Ultimately, it is those governments which bear the responsibility, before their own people and the rest of the world, for making war or peace.
To stand out, war films in America must provide heroes and villains, battle and glory, and a clear message about war or peace, one way or the other.
The Tax Code is now about four million words, nearly as long as seven versions of War and Peace or the novel version of Les Miserables and just under four times the number of words in all of the Harry Potter books put together.
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Sitting reading is a sedentary occupation, and yet no-one is suggesting you should avoid "War and Peace" or the later, over-long Harry Potter novels.
Time after time Mr Blair vows to his intimates that he will tackle the American president on the Middle East peace process, or reconstructing Iraq after the war, but fails to nail it.
Baker has faced far tougher moments in his career--thousands of lives were riding on his 11th-hour war-or-peace meeting in Geneva with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz in January 1991, for example--but few have been as tailor-made for Baker, whose unique skill is the ability to integrate policy and politics in one brain and make a lot of things happen quickly.
As far as IDF commanders and successive defense ministers have been concerned, there was no reason to prepare for war or care about Egypt's preparations for war because we were at peace.
As the Israeli and Syrian teams hurry back to Washington to resume negotiations, we are told this is the last and only chance for peace and that Israel must take it or face war.
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IWPR, or the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, was set up in 1991 in the aftermath of the Gulf War and now covers the Balkans and under-reported regions of the Caucasus and Central Asia.
In Ethiopia, meanwhile, the driving force is war or rather, paradoxically, peace.
This is a watershed event that will determine if we can continue towards peace with the PA or whether we must wage the war against terror ourselves.
History teaches with force and clarity that when the world's most despotic regimes secure the world's most destructive weapons, peace often gives way to oppression, to violence, or to devastating war.
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This is why no one expected for the democratically elected Iraqi government to sign a peace treaty with Israel or even end Iraq's official state of war with the Jewish state.
People's Daily Overseas Edition quotes unnamed experts playing down North Korea's hostile reaction towards an ongoing US-South Korean military drill as a "bluff" aimed at securing a peace agreement with the US. They dismiss the likelihood of war or a possible shelling attack by Pyongyang.
Nobody just hops out of the cradle or graduates from nursery school and sits down and writes War and Peace.
Although all involved in the Congo war signed the peace treaty (negotiated in Lusaka) in July or August, there is no sign of forces being withdrawn.
Even in more prosaic issues than those of war and peace the observance of international agreements on trade or the environment, for instance liberal democracies are more likely to play by the rules.
But after a war that has not gone quite as rapidly or as smoothly as planned, peace may not proceed on the fast track either.
"In such a world, Cold War deterrence is no longer enough to maintain peace, to protect our own citizens and or own allies and friends, " he said.
In France or Germany, these types of argument touch deep insecurities about the war and the need to buttress peace by "ever closer union".
"At the time of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, it was practised widely, especially when men were travelling away from home on business or at war, " he said.
And you have the right wing option presented by Mr. Netanyahu, which says any concession now, before the Palestinians change, before they truly recognize the right of a Jewish state to exist here, and before they give up terror, any Israeli concession or withdrawal right now will be perceived as defeat, will increase violence, will bring war rather than peace.
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