Just as there has never been a war to end all wars, there has yet to be an economic theory that can end all serious instability.

FORBES: The Ultimate Lesson of the Great Recession

But his talk of unity, his avoidance of blame, and his promise to end the war all seem intended to gesture to a similar prospect of redemption: not only for black people but for white people (for voting for a black man), for Republicans (for embracing unity with a Democrat), and for Americans (for saying to the world that the war was a mistake).

NEWYORKER: The Conciliator

As a candidate, Mr. Obama promised to end the Iraq war by withdrawing all troops by March 2009.

WSJ: Flip-Flops and Governance

Foreign meddling makes it all the more difficult to end the war.

ECONOMIST: Afghanistan

Did Charles de Gaulle, summoned back in 1958 to meet France's constitutional crisis and end the Algerian war, realise all this?

ECONOMIST: Algeria then and now

It is time to give Patrick a chance to play with his children again and end this cyclical war once and for all.

CNN: Congo's "Terminator" surrenders, what next for peace?

God knows what you're going to end up with if all you do is just launch the war and unleash the energy without thinking through these issues.

NPR: 'Battle for Peace' in Iraq Echoes Vietnam

One-third support all wars (that was the share that backed the Vietnam war to the end).

ECONOMIST: Americans and Iraq

After all, at the end of World War II, so many Americans like my grandfather came home to new opportunities.

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