“The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesConflictServingPreparingArmed Conflict Author:Michael Mandelbaum
“We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic.” StatesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesSawsLandConflictFourthTroopsHistoricForeign LandsAmerican Troops Author:Michele Bachmann
“The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.” PersonsStatesHumanityUnitedResponsibilityPovertyUnited StatesConflictDiseaseCuresLifts Author:Richard Lugar
“When the United Nations was born it was believed to be a positive instrument for peace. From this exalted position it became an organization in which nations would at least keep talking instead of shooting. Soon it was discovered ... that words were as deadly as any weapon, and when these words had a number of interpretations they could and did lead to conflict.” NationsBornUnitedNumbersTalkingPositionConflictWeaponsOrganizationInstrumentsShootingInterpretationUnited NationsExaltedKeep Talking Author:Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
“This is a time when the United States should be standing tall. There is no other leader in the world today. We shouldn't be approaching conflicts as a team sport. We either get in an we lead and we do a good job, or you don't get in at all.” WorldShouldStatesTodayJobsSportsUnitedLeaderUnited StatesTeamConflictStandingTallGood JobWorld TodaySports TeamStanding Tall Author:Jon Huntsman, Jr.
“I was filming a movie in London, and I drove through Ireland. It was quite beautiful, and the countryside was really remarkable. The contrast between the countryside and Ireland, and the murals there, with Northern Ireland still being a part of the United Kingdom, there's just a stark contrast in those two things. And I found that the art that came out of the conflict was really spectacular because it was about remembering either events or points of view for local neighborhoods, or the rallying cries of one side against the other.” ArtStillsTwoBeautifulRememberFoundSidesUnitedViewsEventsCryConflictPoint Of ViewLondonLocalsKingdomsTwo ThingsRemarkableNeighborhoodContrastIrelandSpectacularCountrysideStarksUnited KingdomNorthern IrelandRallyingMuralRallying Cry Author:Vince Vaughn
“The United States has faced threats from criminal groups, from terrorists, from spies throughout our history, and we have limited our responses. We haven't resorted to total war every time we have a conflict around the world, because that restraint is what defines us. That restraint is what gives us the moral standing to lead the world.” WorldGivingWarStatesUnitedMoralUnited StatesGroupsHavensConflictStandingThreatResponseCriminalsTerroristAround The WorldRestraintSpyTotal War Author:Edward Snowden
“I have a simple answer to any American patriot who claims that there is no conflict between his love of country and his desire to hitch our fate to the United Nations: “You're mistaken.” And, therefore, I'm thinking of adding this corollary to my General Rule of patriotism: The more intellectually consistent and pro-U.N. you are, the less patriotic you are likely to be. I haven't thought that all the way through, but it seems right to me.” ThinkingWayCountrySeemsDesireNationsSimpleAnswersUnitedFateHavensConflictClaimsConsistentPatrioticPatriotMistakenUnited NationsHis LoveAmerican Patriot Author:Jonah Goldberg
“We believe in honesty, morality, and purity; but when they enact tyrannical laws, forbidding us the free exercise of our religion, we cannot submit. God is greater than the United States, and when the Government conflicts with heaven, we will be ranged under the banner of heaven and against the Government...Polygamy is a divine institution. It has been banded down direct from God. The United States cannot abolish it. No nation on the earth can prevent it, nor all the nations of the earth combined...I defy the United States; I will obey God.” BelieveHas BeensStatesGovernmentEarthLawHeavenNationsUnitedUnited StatesGreaterHonestyDivineMoralityExerciseConflictDirectInstitutionsPuritySubmitAbolishBannerPolygamy Author:John Taylor
“I never had the chance to decide; I was drafted to serve my nation. While I received a deferment to attend school, I ultimately served in the United States Army in the years following the Korean conflict.” YearsStatesSchoolNationsChanceUnitedUnited StatesConflictArmyFollowingKoreanUnited States Army Author:Don Young
“The invasion of Iraq was not an unprecedented event; it really was the natural extension of a conflict with Iraq that began on August 2, 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait and occupied Kuwait, which was a major oil supplier to the United States.” StatesNaturalUnitedUnited StatesEventsConflictMajorsIraqOilExtensionsInvasionAugustUnprecedentedKuwaitSuppliers Author:Michael Klare
“If the corrupt Jordanian monarchy were overthrown, it would be the ideal opportunity to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the West Bank and Jordan could then be united. There is already a Palestinian majority in Jordan, and there is enough room for everyone there. That would be the best revolution I could imagine.” IfsEnoughWould BeOpportunityUnitedRoomsImagineRevolutionConflictIdealsMajorityWestSolveBeing The BestPalestinianIsraeliMonarchyJordanIsraeli Palestinian Conflict Author:Tom Segev
“I definitely don't agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States - this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved militarily.” NeedsIdeasStatesAgeUnitedUnited StatesConflictMajorsAgreeRhetoric Author:Bernard-Henri Levy