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Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye. ”
I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy. ”
Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs. ”
If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions. ”
Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict? ”
What matters in any campaign is that you have a strategic core that makes the judgements, decides the strategy, and can deliver. ”
Writing about conflict has provided these dramatic opportunities to talk about really substantial moments in a person's life. I'm not writing about superheroes; I'm writing about ordinary people. ”
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. ”
I have always had a particular antagonism for the military. ”
Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas. ”