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Vietnam should have taught us that mindless anti-Communism is not a cause worth killing or dying for in a world in which Communism is hardly a monolithic force.
Pete Hamill
Communism
World
Worth
Cause
Mindless
Force
Taught
Dying
Which
Us
Vietnam
Should
Hardly
Vietnam should have taught us that nationalism, with its engines of independence and self-determination, is a more powerful force by far than Marxism and must be understood and respected.
Pete Hamill
Independence
Nationalism
Respected
Must
More
Marxism
Powerful
Powerful Force
Self-Determination
Force
Understood
Than
Taught
Far
Us
Vietnam
Should
Engines
The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia.
Pete Hamill
Politics
Anger
Powerful
Powerful Force
Most
Most Powerful
Force
American
Nostalgia
American Politics
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.
Peter Ackroyd
Work
Nature
Language
Demanding
String
Unnatural
Composer
Only
Write
Piano
Writer
He
Divisions
He Or She
Also
She
Force
Within
Equivalent
Historian
Histories
Expect
Against
Produce
Should
English
English Language
Novelist
Novels
Why
A decade and a half ago, the U.S. Air Force dropped massive 15,000-pound 'Daisy Cutter' bombs on the Tora Bora complex where Osama bin Laden was hiding in December 2001.
Peter Bergen
Air Force
Half
Air
Complex
Hiding
Dropped
Massive
Force
Decade
December
Where
Bin
Bombs
Daisy
More than a decade and half after 9/11, U.S. military actions in countries such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and several other Muslim nations are governed by the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) that was passed in the days immediately after 9/11.
Peter Bergen
Half
Military
Other
Several
Immediately
Syria
Muslim
More
Countries
Days
Force
Passed
Governed
Iraq
Than
Decade
Authorization
Afghanistan
Nations
After
Use
Military Force
Actions
In Syria, a no-fly zone targeted at Assad's air force and safe zones for refugees fleeing the fighting would help tamp down the death toll that plays into the hands of ISIS and other Sunni militants who can position themselves as the only groups that are really defending the Sunni population.
Peter Bergen
Death
Air Force
Fighting
Down
Other
Air
Syria
Would
Sunni
Only
Safe
Force
Targeted
Hands
Refugees
Themselves
Fleeing
Really
Help
Who
Toll
Groups
Population
Zone
Plays
Defending
Position
When Congress passed the Authorization for the Use of Military Force immediately after the 9/11 attacks, no one could have imagined this authorization would continue to be the basis for American wars that persist a decade and a half later.
Peter Bergen
Half
Congress
Military
Later
Immediately
Would
Attacks
Could
No-One
Force
Passed
Continue
Persist
Decade
American
Authorization
After
Use
Wars
Military Force
Basis
Imagined
The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.
Peter DeFazio
Freedom
Unity
Security
Force
Impose
Iraq
Cannot
A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.
Peter DeFazio
Government
Home
Responsibility
Claim
Boost
Citizens
Would
Troops
Troops Home
Take
Also
Force
Iraqi
Itself
Timeline
Legitimacy
Bringing
If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.
Peter Mandelson
Time
Good
World
Will
Back
Pressures
Ourselves
Insecurities
Constitutional
More
Force
Globalization
Effective
Square
Just
Want
Against
Europe
Rejected
Need
Treaty
Even with censorship, the Internet is a force for change.
Peter Singer
Change
Censorship
Internet
Force
Even
Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.
Peter Stuyvesant
Day
Tomorrow
Will
Our
Force
After
Little
March
Our servicemen and women are highly trained, highly skilled, and the most professional fighting force in the world.
Phil Gingrey
Women
World
Fighting
Our
Highly
Most
Force
Women Are
Trained
Skilled
Professional
Servicemen
Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.
Phil Jackson
Love
Together
Love Is
Spirit
Force
Teams
Binds
It is a significant gamble to assume that troops in our U.K. Armed Forces would volunteer for a Scottish Defence Force.
Philip Hammond
Defence
Assume
Our
Significant
Would
Troops
Volunteer
Armed
Armed Forces
Force
Forces
Scottish
Gamble
If you're going out for a meal with friends, and they say they can't afford to go to such and such a place, you can't force them to afford it.
Phyllis Logan
You
Meal
Say
Out
Force
Go
Friends
Afford
Going
Place
Them
They Say
Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.
Phyllis Schlafly
Women
Edge
Military
Society
Androgynous
Putting
Combat
Force
Feminist
Goal
Us
Cutting
Cutting Edge
It would be a tragic mistake for Congress ever to adopt any public or tax policy which encourages mothers to assign child care to others and enter the labor force.
Phyllis Schlafly
Mistake
Care
Congress
Others
Enter
Would
Would-Be
Adopt
Force
Policy
Mothers
Encourages
Tragic
Labor
Child
Child Care
Any
Tax
Which
Tax Policy
Public
Ever
Assign
To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as 'evolver,' is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Christ
Say
Recognize
Evolution
Through
Attainable
He
Term
Implicitly
Force
Himself
Becomes
Motive
Process
Whole
We studied the light source in the direction of the magnetic force, we perforated the poles of the magnet; but even in the direction of the magnetic lines of force we found that our result was confirmed.
Pieter Zeeman
Result
Light
Our
Direction
Magnet
Magnetic
Studied
Poles
Force
Source
Lines
Confirmed
Even
Found
Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest.
Pieter Zeeman
Rest
Pendulum
Directly
Proportional
Like
Force
Equilibrium
Electron
Displaced
Displacement
Now
Position
What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.
Poul Anderson
Think
Books
Would
Somewhat
Tour
Remembered
Like
Well
Force
Got
Five
Trying
Across
Zero
I'm still trying to decide. It's a really difficult one because I really enjoy my time in the Air Force. And I'd love to continue it. But the pressures of my other life are building. And fighting them off or balancing the two of them has proven quite difficult.
Prince William
Life
Love
Time
Air Force
Building
Fighting
Enjoy
Difficult
Other
Air
Pressures
My Time
Force
Balancing
Because
Still
Proven
Continue
Off
Trying
Quite
Decide
Them
Really
Two
A dynamic Britain, free from the E.U., can be the greatest force of good in the world.
Priti Patel
Good
World
Free
Force
Greatest
Dynamic
Britain
I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.
R. Lee Ermey
Director
Air Force
Space
Philippines
Made
Meet
Back
Air
Running
Only
Casting
Point
Force
Islands
Got
Off
American
Base
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