The innards of that one-time war machine now adorn one wall of his home, mounted like a work of art.
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It is also one of Syria's most secretive institutions, with employees banned from communicating with any foreign agencies or foreigners especially during time of war and crisis, like now.
Under amendments to the National Security Act of 1947, which created the position of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the War Department, now housed for the first time in a building of its own, became the Department of Defense.
He said the UK and France were closer now than at any time since World War II.
For most of this time, the country has been at war and piracy has now become an attractive way of making money, with ransom payments reaching tens of millions of dollars.
But now, for the first time since the second world war, there are centre-left governments in France, Britain and Germany.
First of all, what my opponent wants you to forget is that he voted to authorize the use of force, and now says it's the wrong war at the wrong time at the wrong place.
By his persuasive account, leaders such as the Sherif Hussein, who ruled what is now western Saudi Arabia at the time of the first world war, or Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt's president from 1956 until 1970, were remarkably reckless men.
The new geopolitical situation partly explains this political shift: the old demons of the Cold War have vanished a long time ago and, similarly, troubles in former Yugoslavian republics are now part of the past.
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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As for the little Syrian girl who has survived a war and now open-heart surgery, she will need one more operation in about a year's time as her body grows.
The BOJ, seeking instead to get long-promised reforms in the ossified post-war workings of Japan Inc. and its regulators, is fighting for time, though its governor, Masaaki Shirakawa, now has only until April in his term.
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