President Thomas Jefferson waged our first foreign war to fight Islamic pirates in the Mediterranean.
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He went off to war to fight for our country, and lost his legs as a result.
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"I had been brought up to believe that our country had gone through a war and that he had had to fight in that war and it was for that reason that they wanted their revenge on him, " she remembers.
The Democrats who voted for this war voted to fight it through to the end, one presumes.
Steve Ballmer is the Winston Churchill of the software business and he has a big enough war chest to fight for a long time.
Instead of building up their war chests to fight a general election every four or five years, the parties now raid them all the time.
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But just as the American people turned against the Vietnam War -- and against the men and women who patriotically answered the call to fight that war -- it is absolutely predictable that losses of U.S. personnel on the Golan Heights will provoke a bitter reaction, if not the scale of Vietnam then, say, on a par with Somalia.
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"It's going to give them cash to fight this war on multiple fronts, " he says.
But Asian elephants have not only been used to fight in war and to work in peace.
No rule book has been written that provides guidance on how to fight the war, he said.
On their way to fight the war, it's a pretty fair guess that they were scared and lonely.
It is the obligation of every Afghan to fight the war against terror.
American forces with 40 percent of what they need to fight the war.
We merely pretend to fight in war and excuse our feeble acts as done for the good of others, not ourselves.
In fact, it's become so dependent on contractors it can't even fight the war or engage in rebuilding efforts without them.
The army cannot fight the war without the right equipment and it is important to see the Americans coming up with the goods.
Soon, however, another generation of young Angolans will be rounded up and packed off to fight a war that neither side can win.
But Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution says that's mainly because some neocons in the Pentagon tried to fight the war on the cheap.
We're trying to make sure they have the ability to fight this war, that they have the wherewithal to be able to do it.
'The Children of the Dump' focused on a community in the Mekong Delta, where one woman is using literacy to help fight a war against child trafficking.
Those who fight the war on drugs, with its strict penalties at home and sharp punishment abroad, point to seizures of both drugs and their users as victories.
But the cold war, hitherto a fight for influence in Europe and Latin America, had now acquired a Middle Eastern axis, and Jews and Arabs were at its centre.
Left and right rarely meet in combat, preferring to fight their war by proxy: only 5% of their victims, it is reckoned, actually die with a gun in their hands.
Balancing the competing military and political needs is a tricky equation for Pentagon planners, and it brings into focus a key question: How many troops are needed to fight each war?
Military men and women fight a war for their nation, and when they return, they bring the memories of their fallen comrades in their mind, and all too often, the verifiable mental traumas of PTSD.
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