The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab... →
Al-Waleed bin Talal
I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.
The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there... →
David Talbot
People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my... →
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on... →
It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.
War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends... →
John S. Tanner
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.
Ida Tarbell
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While... →
Bernie Taupin