The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
Whether we like it or not, gender differences matter in a combat situation.
Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that's a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It's a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it.
Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally have some transparency and accountability in how DOD spends taxpayer dollars.
Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.
Two things are to blame for our predicament, one a corollary of the other. The first reason is that we did not have enough troops in Samarra. The skill and courage of 150 American soldiers prevented chaos, but was never enough to fully secure a city of 120,000 people or maintain the rule of law [. . . ] Second, because of a lack of troops, American military leaders are forced to make a choice between mission objectives and self-preservation.
Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.
These guys who talk about free markets, they're not ideologues; they're crooks.
A strong human spirit with control over appetites of the flesh is master over emotions and passions and not a slave to them. That kind of freedom is as vital to the spirit as oxygen is to the body! Freedom from self-slavery is true liberation!
Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out.
We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.