"War is war, and there will be casualties, " Powell said on NBC.
Or, as Colin Powell put it, it is not just that the Cold War is over - now the post Cold War is over too.
So part of our challenge is reconciling these two seemingly irreconcilable truths -- that war is sometimes necessary, and war is at some level an expression of human feelings.
And the greatest danger here of course is that unlike the Cold War, unlike World War II, this is not a war that has a clean ending, so you cannot set a point at which we would demobilize and therefore get rid of some of this apparatus.
World War I is a war of empires which comes to its culmination point when a state gets into it.
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World War II is a war of empires against the state system.
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"The war on drugs is a war on common sense, " said commissioner Ruth Dreifuss, who is also the former president of Switzerland.
The IOWA, which served in World War II, the Korean War and the Cold War, is 14 stories high, 887 feet long and weighs more than 45, 000 tons.
Zdravko Tolimir, a close aide to Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic during the Bosnian War, is accused of war crimes at the international tribunal at The Hague.
Perhaps war makes culture as much as culture makes war, and the farther off the war is the less we notice its effects.
Opinions on the war in Iraq, on the other hand, have changed slightly, with a slight majority (52 percent) now saying that the war is an essential part of the war on terrorism.
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Senator JAMES WEBB (Democrat, Virginia): The majority of the nation no longer supports this war - the way this war is being fought, nor does the majority of our military, nor does the majority of Congress.
Poloma says some people might hear that and say Palin believes this is a holy war, or that Pentecostals think this is a holy war.
"The injuries are war-related injuries, but war is experienced at a great distance from your family and support system, " said Terence Keane, director of the VA's National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Boston.
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Because of the service and sacrifice of our brave men and women in uniform, the war in Iraq is over. (Applause.) The war in Afghanistan is coming to a close. (Applause.) Al Qaeda has been decimated.
If the Gulf was the first television war, Kosovo is the first Web war.
Mr Blair has no hesitation in saying that the war on terror is Britain's war too.
In a strange way, America's war against fires is similar to its war against drugs.
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Now that the format war is in full swing and CES is over, we are left wondering where the official format war sales numbers are?
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This is not Barack Obama's war, but it is certainly the West's war.
His comment about World War IV indicates that the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church continues to reconsider the matter of war in the present-day, post-Cold War world, and that it is placing the Cold War into a historical perspective.
For the first six films, Dent was an ally to Gordon and Batman, but now they are hunting him down as he starts a gangland war in the city, and one event during the war is the killing of the Flying Graysons in front of their young-teens son, Dick, at the circus.
American public perception is growing that the war is at last taking a turn for the better.
The problem is that this price war is a red herring, diverting attention from a much bigger problem.
First there is the fact that war is an expensive proposition and Iran today is in trouble on that score.
But the bottom line is this: the war is ending.
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