Accordingly, the U.S. has made clear that terrorists and their friends are the enemies of mankind, and that we are leading a war of the world's civilized people against them.
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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 language of war is more the world of men than women, as is Wall Street.
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Compared with the momentous collapse of communism or the drama of the Gulf war, the world is a relatively quiet place these days.
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.
W. Brands, a prolific author and teacher at the University of Texas, is a different sort of history: a clear, broad summary of events at home and abroad from the end of the second world war to the election of Barack Obama.
Not since the end of the Cold War has the world seen such a degree of transformation in global affairs.
The country was born out of struggle - the struggle to maintain some kind of territorial integrity at the end of World War I as the Allies decided to carve up Anatolia and walk away with it themselves.
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.
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.
My God, there have been more tears shed on reality TV than by all the war-widows of the world.
In the last Chechen war, the rest of the world stood aside, vaguely muttering that it was an internal Russian affair.
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 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.
The United States has officially expressed its view that upon the extinction of a State, its bilateral political treaties automatically lapse, and 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.
Both during the post-World War I breakup of the Ottoman Empire and with the breakup of the British and French empires after World War II, British and French imperial authorities colluded with Arab imperialists to guarantee the latter's nearly uninhibited control over the Middle East.
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.
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.
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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And it will be a reminder that -- from the trenches of the First World War to the mountains of Afghanistan -- Aussies and Americans have stood together, we have fought together, we have given lives together in every single major conflict of the past hundred years.
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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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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.
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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Apparently, my little group of three or four disco haters were not the only ones who wanted to wage war against the Donna Summers of the world.
"This is well illustrated by the rich harvests of fishermen after the Second World War and the rebuilding of North Sea herring stocks after the decline of the 1970s, " said Holm.
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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Yesterday was the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I and the beginning of our own time.
The way I've described it to people in the past has been if you've ever seen any of the documentaries of World War II when the Allies were bombing Europe, that's what the level of destruction looked like.
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Furthermore, we need to join hands in cleansing this region of the remaining shadows of the Second World War and the Cold War.
Among the handful of documents here from the period of World War II, a section of the archives still closed to scholars, is a 1942 letter from Jewish inmates of an Italian concentration camp, thanking Pope Pius XII for his support and gifts of clothing.
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