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" During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically. "

Ben Shapiro

America

Election

Result

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" I learned from my grandmother, who grew up in devastating war times, how important it is to keep with tradition and celebrate the holidays during tough times. "

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" Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. "

" I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. "

" My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. "

" It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. "

" We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership. "

" It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it. "

" What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. "

" War is a blessing compared with national degradation. "

" Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits. "

" My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners. "

" War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means. "

" There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair. "

" How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime? "

" The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people. "

" The U.S. never lost a battle against North Vietnam, but it lost the war. "

" Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry. "

" World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation. "

" There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. "

" The first casualty when war comes is truth. "

" The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. "

" Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult. "

" An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us. "

" The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides. "

" The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil. "

" It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil. "

" It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them. "

Eric Stoltz

I Am

Good