The main difference between the major party candidates in 2008 was that Barack Obama appeared to be more determined to spend money but less enthusiastic about global war-making.
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Would the border region of Alsace-Lorraine, with its rich seams of coal, again be fought over as European nations struggled to control a key commodity, coal to produce electricity, needed for a war-making machine?
Despite the moral, humanitarian and strategic arguments for intervention, Syria is a trap that threatens to suck external powers in and shackle them with responsibility for war-making, peacekeeping and a reconstruction effort that could eventually involve thousands of boots on the ground and billions of dollars in assistance.
In "Tropic Thunder, " a comedy about self-absorbed Hollywood types making a "Platoon"-style war movie, Downey plays Australian actor Kirk Lazarus, a multiple Oscar-winning performer who gets so involved in his roles that he forgets to come out of them.
Against the initial instincts of his foreign affairs spokesman, Sir Menzies Campbell, and Alan Beith, the senior Lib Dem who sits on the Intelligence and Security Committee, Mr Kennedy demanded as the price of his co-operation a widely based inquiry that would examine both the political decision-making and the war's legality.
In many ways the stories of these women are part of a larger narrative the American public, exhausted by the country's longest-ever war, has nearly stopped hearing: Some women are making great progress -- and taking great risks -- while some others have seen their lives change little and continue to be plagued by violence and deadly abuse.
In the post-war years Mr Vidal set about making a name for himself in literary New York.
Much of it is an elegantly presented narrative of information already in the public domain about Soviet mischief-making during the cold war.
The Great War of the Eggplant is a 1994 myth-making series that chronicles the impact of a controversial vegetable from the East.
But to Mr Sikorski and his colleagues, Georgia's leaders blew their credibility with erratic decision-making during the August 2008 war with Russia.
But the combination of two world wars fought largely on European soil and a 40-year Cold War changed all that, making much of Europe a pawn between two nuclear superpowers.
But a series of confidence-building measures has succeeded in making war seem almost inconceivable.
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As the world went on with its day, the cool-headed General James Hill introduced a new philosophy to our decision-making process with respect to thermonuclear war.
The stories and the artifacts mesh nicely, making this exhibit of an oft-forgotten war most memorable.
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If cabinet government means collective decision-making, it vanished in the first world war, when the job of the state grew and power was spun out to a web of committees with the prime minister at the centre.
In the cold war America saw Bhumibol as a staunch ally and helped finance his image-making machine.
Published this week in the U.S. by Harper Collins (no one in Japan has yet agreed to translate and publish the work), Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan relies on diaries, memoirs and war-era documents that have been unearthed in Japan since the Emperor died in 1989.
Under the original Bretton Woods system, Mr McKinnon points out, America borrowed on a short-term basis from Europe, but lent long, making enormous direct investments in the rebuilding of Europe's war-blasted capital stock.
We're making real progress against MRSA but the war against another infection, C-difficile, must be intensified.
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D-Day is the best-remembered event of Britain's second world war, a preference that exemplifies the nation's esteem for improvisation and making-do.
Having hundred of combat missions in World War II, Korea, and Viet Nam, he knew about making decisions in high-stress environments.
She worked -- when my grandfather went off to World War II, she worked on an assembly line, making bombers.
And if deploying that higher-priced plane presents a more credible deterrent to potential aggressors that dissuades them from making war, then its cost advantage over less capable planes is incalculably great.
The posters document the era of "B-Movie" film-making in the first half of the 20th Century, covering genres such as westerns, war films and musicals.
While many in the American government consider the UN past its sell-by date, the French are worried that the organisation may be tricked into making the war look justified.
Drop the Dead Donkey writer Guy Jenkins relishes making Jeffrey Archer an Indiana Jones-style hero - responsible for victory in the Gulf War, single-handedly blowing up the Iranian Embassy and prompting Sir Paul McCartney with every Beatles lyric.
Highlights include a comprehensive "making of" the penultimate episode "Blackwater, " an in-depth look into the War of the Five Kings and meticulous histories and character profiles which explore the amazing production elements that went into making the second season so compelling.
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