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.
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.
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 Internet itself is not inherently -- to state the obvious -- is not inherently a force for democracy or oppression, for war or for peace.
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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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.
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.
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.
However, seizing the correct historical moment to decide on peace or war marks the difference between leaders and ordinary men.
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.
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.
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in the Congo war signed the peace treaty (negotiated in Lusaka) in July or August, there is no sign of forces being withdrawn.
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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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".
The Germans reckon they are playing a weighty role in the war, whether in their contribution to the military effort, in their generosity to refugees, or in their peace-seeking diplomacy.
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