“It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blown to smithereens, also barbaric. The main horror of what the coalition is doing is not a matter of the occasional soldier who, in the heat of battle, commits a war crime, but the steady destruction rained on cities, villages, the Iraqi people. This violence is wreaked calmly, from a distance, within the rules of engagement. The war itself is the American war crime.” PeopleWarMatterPoliticalImaginationCitiesViolenceCrimeHorrorBattleWeaponsDestructionDistanceSoldierHeavyCommitAcknowledgeHeatBombsVillageEngagementSteadyOccasionalMissilesCoalitionsSavageryBarbaricWar CrimesArtilleryAmerican WarRules Of Engagement Author:James Carroll
“[Barack] Obama's out there saying it's the number one national security threat [climate change], and he's got his Joint Chiefs of Staff out there planning American battles, military engagements on that basis.” NumbersSecurityMilitaryBattleBasesThreatClimateClimate ChangePlanningChiefsBarackEngagementStaffNational SecurityJointsChief Of Staff Author:Rush Limbaugh
“For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.” EndsMightTodayFacesLiteratureFearFreedomLonelinessTomorrowBattleLonelyEngagedEngagementSo Lonely Book:In Search of Our Mother's Gardens Source: In Search of Our Mother's Gardens
“You were a soldier?" "Yes, sir." "You barely look old enough to have seen the last battle." "My father was a career army man, sir. I was there at the first engagement with Analousia, and took up my father's rifle when I was barely fifteen." "Saints preserve us," Dr. Kelling said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. "What have we done to our youth?” MenFirstsLooksSaidDoneEnoughLastsFatherCareersYouthBattleArmySoldierSaintShouldersPreservesEngagementFifteenDrsRiflesGalen Book:Princess of the Midnight Ball Source: Princess of the Midnight Ball