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“I’m trying to learn more about international law to understand why we don’t have better solutions for conflict - for dictators or aggressors that are hurting or raping children or using them as child soldiers. Why can’t we have an international community handle these things in a swift, efficient manner?”

Trying Children Law Community Hurt Conflict Solutions Soldier International Handle Efficient Dictator International Community International Law Aggressors Child Soldier

Author:Angelina Jolie

“In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future.”

Should Ends Focus Teacher Achieve Judging Keys Months Needed Conflict Elements Training Doctors Police Soldier International Iraq Officers Involvement Police Officer Robust

Author:John Olver

“I am also full of admiration for Chelsea Manning [formerly PFC Bradley Manning]. Regardless of which side of the argument you're on, he stood up for something he felt wasn't right. That was an extraordinarily brave thing to do, and I think he was unfairly punished for it. It's a really big deal what he did, and he did it for the betterment of all us, including the soldiers on the ground, as well as the civilians caught up in those conflicts.”

“There are pros and cons about the policy decision whether to follow the Geneva Conventions in a war where they do not legally apply. Among the pros might be benefits for America's image, its ability to argue in future conflicts that the Conventions should be followed, and training soldiers to follow only the Geneva standards. Among the cons might be greater security and safety for our troops who capture and detain al Qaeda operatives and the ability to gather more actionable intelligence swiftly.”

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Author:John Yoo

“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”

“One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.”

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Author:Walter Dean Myers

“To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.”

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Book:Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

“The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.”

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Author:Alfred de Vigny

“The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.”

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Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”

“There are far more statues of soldiers out there than there are of civilians.”

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Author:George Armstrong Custer

“Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus that no child should take part in hostilities or be involuntarily recruited and that former child soldiers should be assisted by their governments after a life of violence and distress.”

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Author:Ban Ki-moon