The World Motivation
Europeans are far more anti-war than Americans. They've had more wars, and they really just don't believe in it any more. But Americans do.
“Europeans are far more anti-war than Americans. They've had more wars, and they really just don't believe in it any more. But Americans do.”
Europeans are far more anti-war than Americans. They've had more wars, and they really just don't believe in it any more. But Americans do.
Chroniclers of the role of paper in history are given to extravagant pronouncements: Architecture would not have been possible without paper. Without paper, there would have been no Renaissance. If there had been no paper, the Industrial Revolution would not have been possible. None of these statements is true.
Before Birdseye, hardly anybody ate frozen food because it was awful.
You could be a locavore in Florida or southern California. But I tried that. It was really limiting.
When I say my family suffered for my anti-war protesting, one of the many fallouts was having to send my two sons to America because I couldn't keep control of them when the divorce happened... there are consequences for your actions.
My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.
In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come.
The new right-wing movement is a wide group of people committed to free speech, anti-war, trade. It's sympathetic to whistleblowers.
I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.
Wilson won re-election in 1916, his campaign running on the slogan, 'He kept us out of war.' But he could then betray his anti-war supporters knowing that a rising political coalition - made up, in part, of men looking to redeem a lost war by finding new wars to fight - had his back.