But war itself is never glorious, and we must never trumpet it as such.
Never was the mismatch between the idea of the war and the war itself more apparent.
The war itself, on this view, shows in unexpected clarity the limits of American power.
The campaign for the hearts and minds of Iraqis is more tortuous even than the war itself.
War itself was tautologically recessionary for men killing each other rather than enriching one another through trade.
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The other problem is that the nature of war itself is changing radically.
Sure, each person is affected differently but I think it depends on the role they played in the war itself.
The war itself, and the prolonged diplomatic wrangle that preceded it, have been widely blamed for holding back economic growth worldwide.
The Chechen war itself, now 15 months old and with no end in sight, overshadows all other problems with Russia's democracy.
The official count of the number of people who have committed suicide since 1983 is 70, 000 more than the war itself has killed.
If that is so, it is partly because for most Sri Lankans most of the time, the war itself is an abstraction.
But one of the things that I think is comparable is that they don't really make any commentary on the war itself.
Ritual gives us things like the glorified warrior class the brave knights or super-soldiers and sets the stage for the glorification of war itself.
The schoolboys he taught before and after the second world war, and the war itself, cast a blight on his view of humanity.
He was also concerned that his central thesis that the civil war had been unnecessary was self-defeating: wasn't a big book on an unnecessary war itself unnecessary?
It evoked all sorts of emotions and comments about the war itself and what America's role ought to be in that part of the world.
The start of his second term coincides with mounting concern in countries that have sent troops over casualty numbers and the progress of the war itself.
It was not so much the war itself as the perceived administration policy of 'stay the course, ' which implied endless intervention with no victory in sight.
This would enable the Bush administration to declare a kind of victory (for its latest strategy, if not for the war itself) and to begin drawing down the troop levels soon.
He grew up in the quiet environment of a comfortably well-off family, whose attitudes had been shaped by memories of the War itself and the uncertainty of the post-War austerity years.
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But also pain and bewilderment at the confusions of war itself, the shocking photographs of the innocent dead, the media experts with their daily questioning of how things are being run.
Would we have gone forward with the build-up to Operation Desert Storm let alone the Gulf War itself if Washington, New York or some other place in America could have been credibly threatened with annihilation?
Would we have gone forward with the build-up to Operation Desert Storm -- let alone the Gulf War itself -- if Washington, New York or some other place in America could have been credibly threatened with annihilation?
Emptied of all aspirations and ideology, the Japanese spent the next seven years (the allied occupation lasted almost twice as long as the Pacific war itself) having their minds filled with a wholly new vision and set of dreams.
And the young are driven by a convergence story: Whereas their fathers were divided by the history of war and their grandfathers by war itself, today's young people are only separated from each other by the sound plugs in their ears.
Their accusations have left the Democrat in a quagmire similar to the war itself, not because they were true (most were either exaggerated or unproven), or because Mr Kerry was slow to respond, but because they exposed a fundamental flaw in his campaign.
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We understand that the issue of immunity is of very specific importance for the United States, as was for us the issue of sovereignty and detentions and the continued presence of international forces in Afghan villages and the very conduct of the war itself.
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The Middle Eastern press is full of harsh words about American aggression and pictures of the civilian victims that Iraq has put on display, whipping the public into a fury, both at the war itself and at their own governments' failure to take a tougher line against it.
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