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To: stockman_scott who wrote (158137)1/16/2009 8:57:31 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Respond to of 362514
 
"That was the lead in the pan-Arab London daily, al-Hayat, which wrote, "Gone was the tone of confrontation and ideological rhetoric that characterized the foreign policy of the United States during the past 8 years."

To be honest, 28 years. Maybe a break with Clinton, but since Iran-Contra and the war in Nicaragua.

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Cicero
The sinews of war are infinite money.
Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home.
Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

Julius Caesar
War gives the right of the conquerors to impose any conditions they please upon the vanquished.

Hermocrates of Syracuse
When there is mutual fear, men think twice before they make aggression upon one another.

Herodotus
In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons.
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

Hippocrates
War is the only proper school of the surgeon.