What this sampler is designed to convey is simply that for all the talk of the end of the Cold War and the reduction of tensions the world remains a very dangerous place for America and her interests.
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But the sheer magnitude of the human tragedy of the second world war puts it in a class of its own, and its relative closeness to the present day makes claims on the collective memory that more remote horrors cannot.
But the administration's opponents point to changes in the laws of war under the Geneva Conventions since World War II, and they contend that because of those changes, the U.S. did not use military tribunals in the half century that followed, not even against guerilla fighters of the Vietcong.
Ms Riefenstahl, whose work included the Nazi propaganda films Triumph of the Will, about the 1934 Nazi Party Nuremberg Rally and Olympia, glorifying the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, has twice been cleared of complicity with the Nazis by war crimes courts following the collapse of the Nazi regime at the end of World War II.
Ending the sort of obstruction of justice his department appears to have engaged in with respect to the prosecution of Brotherhood fronts and operatives is a good place to start the next phase of the War for the Free World.
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In the last Chechen war, the rest of the world stood aside, vaguely muttering that it was an internal Russian affair.
One can understand the moral seriousness of the architects of Israel in the immediate aftermath of the second world war.
Both the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations took high-handed actions that pre-cipitated and then deepened and prolonged the economic crisis that was battering both the U.S. and the rest of the world and made possible the rise of Nazism and the advent of World War II.
The most dazzling example of the power of negative space comes from the efforts of analysts during World War II to reduce the enormous losses of aircraft and lives of flight crews that were routine during missions from British airfields over the German industrial heartland.
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Fifty years or so ago, shocked by the barbarities of the second world war, the would-be makers of a better world agreed on an ambitious bunch of conventions prohibiting genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity and then, for nearly half a century, did nothing to enforce them.
The struggle over a documentary designed to do the former is a microcosm of the larger struggle for the future of Islam and the War for the Free World.
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The 1937 match proved to be the final Ryder Cup before the intervention of the Second World War, with the 1939 event, planned for Florida, cancelled.
" He asserts that "the context of the sentence as written was the late 1940s, in the immediate aftermath of World War II, not the entire Cold War, as strongly implied in letters and memorandums circulated in the Senate.
The U.S. government has acted in accordance with that view in connection with the extinction of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1898, the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I, and the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1992.
Mr. Roberts, a historian, is author most recently of "The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War" (Harper, 2011).
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The tribunal was the first international body for the prosecution of war crimes since the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials held in the aftermath of World War II.
Given these insights, it is peculiar, not to say confounding, that the United States has failed so miserably over the past five years of this War for the Free World to value properly the role of government-sponsored international broadcasting in its outcome.
The public silence of the Vatican during the widespread atrocities of World War II is arguably the most controversial issue in the Catholic Church's wartime history.
He also urged the Congress and the President to make a far more concerted effort to educate the American people and foreign audiences about the true nature of this War for the Free World and its stakes, including those that militated the forcible overthrow of a WMD-armed and terrorist-sponsoring Saddam Hussein.
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Huntsville, in the north, boasts some of the nation's highest technology, rippling out from the space industry that began with the arrival after the second world war of the Nazis' rocket-man, Wernher von Braun.
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So during the earlier months of the Syria war, the world waited for her to back her words with actions.
Recently the Center for Security Policy sat down with him to discuss these possibilities, and to report on his experiences on the African front of the war between radical Islamism and rest of the world.
My God, there have been more tears shed on reality TV than by all the war-widows of the world.
At the same time, we may find the neoclassical design of the National World War II Memorial by the Austrian-born Friedrich St.
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The present structure and working methods of the Security Council, which are legacies of the Second World War, are not responsive to the expectations of the current generation and the contemporary needs of humanity.
The big shift occurred after the carnage of the first world war and the Spanish flu that followed.
Compared with the momentous collapse of communism or the drama of the Gulf war, the world is a relatively quiet place these days.
He says that the UK "is in the economic equivalent of war today" - and therefore the spirit of the World War II must be recreated in Whitehall.
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