Quotes about "War & Peace"

One of the fundamental pillars of international humanitarian law is that proper distinction should be made between military targets and civilians. That is why indiscriminate bombing, let alone the deliberate targeting of residential areas or agricultural infrastructure, is considered a war crime. ”

I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on. ”

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in. ”

Being stupid and compassionate are not conflicts. Being mean and being funny and having something to say are not a conflict. ”

Barack Obama's military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids. ”

Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported. ”

The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated diplomacy. Outreach would substitute for isolation. ”

The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics and diplomacy. ”

Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead. ”

Turkey's solidarity with Hamas is not, of course, based on Arab nationalism, which as a non-Arab nation it does not support. It is instead based on a definition of the Mideast conflict as one between Jews and Muslims, precisely the position of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. ”