Not exact matches
As we've explained numerous
times here at FDD's Long
War Journal, both the Taliban and Haqqani leaders have repeatedly denied
there is separation between the two.
«I was here visiting just a few days before the visit of President Obama, and I remember at the
time there was much talk about Cuba strengthening relations with both the European Union and the United States,» Mogherini said, when asked by reporters about the Trump administration's partial rollback of a fragile detente between the old Cold
War foes.
To be fair,
there have been a several
times that markets didn't recover as quickly after seismic geopolitical events such as the invasion of France in 1940 and the Yom Kippur
War (which led to a complete realignment of control over global oil), according to the Credit Suisse team led by Keating.
There's a Real Risk That Trump's Trade
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There are
times in history when the fate of a
war and millions of lives depended on the strength of such ciphers.
There's no question that Star
Wars is a huge hit with movie - going audiences, and experts say it is likely to continue to rack up sales records for some
time to come.
At that
time there was a general perception that the
war business had seen its best years and that big defense companies should be diversifying more into peaceful businesses.
(Can't expect decent people to fight next to coloreds, can't trust colored men in a battle, don't use the army for liberal politics, the soldiers are against it, the civilians don't know what they're doing,
there's a
war on and this isn't the right
time, etc.) It was wrong then and it is wrong now.
There were more jews expelled from the Arab communties in the
time shortly after the State of Israel was founded than ran from the
war of 1948.
There is one simple reason the editors of the New York
Times and the likes of MSNBC's Chris Matthews find Saletan's answer to the culture
war on abortion so compelling: It allows pro-choice politicians to change the subject.
... What has happened over
time is that people were forced to believe in the one of the Abrahamic faiths through Holy
wars, torture, Crusades and Inquisitions, and as people practiced this chosen people ideology, whether Christian, Catholic, Jew or Muslim, which was built on the principle of remaining segregated from the un-chosen, their faith urged them to remain segregated, where they lived and never to marry anyone outside their faith... and even in death
there is a history of segregation which to this day continues, try having a non Jewish person buried in Jewish cemetery.
I am open to the possibility of their being an omnipotent super being (if for no other reason than because I can't prove
there isn't one) however, if one were to present him or herself to me I think I'd have a hard
time respecting this omnipotent being that has had the power to prevent
wars, protect the innocent, and create a better life for all, but chooses not to.
Perhaps I am allowing my mind get away from me and that I have watched the Lord of the Rings, Star
Wars, or Dune, or other sci - fi movies too many
times but I wonder if
there is real battle going on for «Middle Earth».
I also did not say that America was Isolationist —
there was a large isolationist element in society (and the Christians were in that camp) that effectively kept America out of the
war for years, but Roosevelt, an internationalist, was able to provide supplies via lend - lease (which the conservatives and religious people of the
time opposed).
The dispersal and re-emergence of Israel was not a self - fullfilling prophecy: the dispersal portion certainly was not, as the Romans did not conquer Israel with the intent to fulfill Bible prophecy; at the
time of the prophecy,
there would have been no reason to believe that
there would be people who would try to Israel; the people who founded modern Israel were, at least in the main, non-religious and were not trying to fulfill the Bible's prediction; and finally, considering the almost continual obstacles (
wars) faced by Israel since the day of its founding, sucess at restoring Israel was far from certain.
These gifts combined with a free university education to so many people for whom
there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil
war, led to the failure of the experiment failed, but in a
time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.
* Ezekiel 28:3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel;
there is no secret that they can hide from thee: * Ecclesiastes 3:8 A
time to love, and a
time to hate; a
time of
war, and a
time of peace.
Second, because
there probably have been other
times in our history — before and immediately after the Civil
War, plus the Depression and New Deal — when political lines were drawn as sharply and public rhetoric was as combatively partisan.
There have been plenty of
wars fought over a wide range of reasons, not all
wars are over religion, when are you athiests going to get off of your high horse and accept the fact that everyone, religious and non religious cause violence at some
time.
This story will go on for ever until the date life ends on Earth... this ever lasting conflict was planted
there because ever since it started it created jobs for
war arms manufacturers, it has created good business revenue for
war and arms lords, made a good business for those con - fis - cat - ing Palestinians lands & olive trees, turning them in to residential areas for imported Jews, gradually removing Palestinians of all faiths further out of range every
time...?
What is said
there is out of the movie «Canadian Bacon» where Alan Alda plays the US president, up for an election and wants to be wa
war time president, so whips up fury over the Canadians to rally support to him... Hilarious movie, including John Candy, Michael Moore, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollack, Rip Torn, Jim Belushi, Steven Wright, and many more...
Instead,
there is often a
war on Christ by Christians — and it's been that way for a long
time now.
Elizabeth encouraged Christians to pray for the situation: «Jesus did warn us
there will be trouble and
war and all sorts of disturbing news right'til the end of
time.
Historically,
there have always been
wars, and they have grown more harsh: therefore
there will continue to be
war till the end of
time.
Also, for the first
time, Abraham is told that his seed shall be victorious in
wars with its enemies — which means, of course, that
there will be later need for God - fearing men to sacrifice their sons, this
time in battle; in the absence of fathers who are willing to pay such a price, God's way on earth can not survive in the world against its enemies.
In one of those moments that remind us that
there's a culture
war going on, National Public Radio decided in 1994 to hire Mumia Abu - Jamal» serving
time for the 1982 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner» as a political commentator on its program All Things Considered.
There is no reason for me to survey the current debate as concerns the substance of the arguments, nor to suggest my own verdict on each of the contested points, as I would do in a setting where
time and structure would permit a serious debate in just
war terms.
I would say all sides come to the forefront, but I think that some of us see things from more than one side to begin with and that
there are many «sides» (perspectives) that are out
there, I don't think it is a polemic, and I don't think it is «sides» in terms of choosing sides in a
war... more a dialogue where confrontations take place, but (hopefully) most of the
time not with the intent of winners and losers (or, if that is the intent, that hopefully we realize that and adjust our own rhetoric to move away from that pardigm)
In the same way that we are ignorant of our distant future; they had no knowledge, no idea, no vision, no dream, no fantasy that two millennia hence
there would be an increasingly global and interconnected culture and economy of 7 billion people, world
wars and holocausts encompassing and killing and making refugees of millions, staggering accomplishments in medicine and engineering and transportation and communication, and the development of sciences and mathematics and technologies that did not and could not exist in their
time and that they could not have comprehended.
b) Whilst
there was a lot of opposition to WW2, the only
time it made its way into the major newspapers and newscasts of the
time, was upon the arrest, or conviction of somebody opposed to the
war effort;
Then
there is the sad and, to my mind, unmistakable fact that people who have adopted the so - called «presumption against
war» tend to get things wrong, time and again: as the U.S. bishops got the dynamics of the Cold War wrong in their 1983 pastoral letter, «The Challenge of Peace»; as most religious leaders and intellectuals got it wrong in predicting a Middle East Armageddon in the first Gulf War and the recent Iraq W
war» tend to get things wrong,
time and again: as the U.S. bishops got the dynamics of the Cold
War wrong in their 1983 pastoral letter, «The Challenge of Peace»; as most religious leaders and intellectuals got it wrong in predicting a Middle East Armageddon in the first Gulf War and the recent Iraq W
War wrong in their 1983 pastoral letter, «The Challenge of Peace»; as most religious leaders and intellectuals got it wrong in predicting a Middle East Armageddon in the first Gulf
War and the recent Iraq W
War and the recent Iraq
WarWar.
Without the «Cold
War» many in the military who support Paul think that
there is no need to waste
time in backwaters like Iraq and Afghanistan, as many thought about in Vietnam back in the day.
People refusing medical treatment because they think they can pray disease away, The demoralizing way religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a bad person by nature), the religious
wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you» kind of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but
there won't be any effect, so it is just a waste of
time.
The next
time there's a school shooting you can add that blood to Bush's bloody hands from the Iraq
war.
As Frank wrote in her diary: «After May, 1940 the good
times were few and far between: first
there was the
War, then the capitulation and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.»
There are plenty of new names — like Gwendoline Christie's Captain Phasma and Lupita Nyong» o's Maz Kanata — who don't get fleshed out as much, but half the fun of Star
Wars has always been the deeply detailed narratives such side characters acquire over
time.
An abridged version of the Iliad I read in the fifth grade inspired my one -
time attempt at rapping: «
War broke out between Greece and Troy» for Troy
there was grief but for Greece
there was joy.»
After World
War II the executive branch of government argued that it needed absolute power in foreign affairs because (1) in a nuclear age, when missiles can make the trip from Moscow to New York in 20 minutes,
there is no
time to consult Congress and the people, and (2) the «secret, subversive» techniques of the communists can be challenged only by subversion and secrecy on our part.
We need both Isaiah's vision of a warless world and Koheleth's common sense that
there is a
time for
war and a
time for peace.13
We need to say to ourselves cold - bloodedly that if we do not rise to the demand of our
time for a wider justice and a more stable world order,
there is the real possibility that what will be left of humanity will be a few crazed survivors stumbling and mumbling about in the radioactive ruins left by the atomic
war.
There was an attempt to revive holy
war in the
time of Josiah, which explains the heavy emphasis on it in the book of Deuteronomy.
RD.. How path - et - ic to see your hate and fear driving you to death...!?! Man pull your self together and have the courage to face the returns of your deeds...
Wars were always
there in life whether were religious or not so stop doing it on your self... Beside learn to wish people well whether you agree or disagree with might you succeed in life rather than being a loser... by being a cowered... My posts were meant for the friendly people I had known for some
time, whom I found they were full of compassion and not for black hearted one's like you who hate all God creations...
So wait you aren't going to blame what was obviously Politics on Religious
Wars lets not forget that
there were a few things involved in these «
Wars of Religion» and I am sure most historians will agree with me, firstly the Crusades weren't thought up as some ideological crusade to protect Christians from some horde of Muslims coming from the east, they were in - fact land grabbing and trying to stave off the eventual fall of what is now known as Istanbul, secondly I highly doubt that most of the average religious person had any idea just how politicized the church became during this
time period or up until probably John Paul the II took over, I mean the Thirty Years
War could have been called a Religious war under this Videos silly assumptio
War could have been called a Religious
war under this Videos silly assumptio
war under this Videos silly assumptions.
Pushing the movie up a week means Infinity
War will open at the same
time around the world, and
there will now be a four - week cushion for Disney's next big release — Solo: A Star
Wars Story — on May 25.
Even if
there were such a prescription, knowing what the word «enemy» means in Hebrew would lend such a command some sense, especially in
time of
war.
And while I prefer peace over
war, and I wish «nonviolence» was the doctrine of all nations and tribes,
there are
times when a nation has to go to
war to assure its citizens of security from those who will harm us.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 ¶ To every thing
there is a season, and a
time to every purpose under the heaven: 2 A
time to be born, and a
time to die; a
time to plant, and a
time to pluck up that which is planted; 3 A
time to kill, and a
time to heal; a
time to break down, and a
time to build up; 4 A
time to weep, and a
time to laugh; a
time to mourn, and a
time to dance; 5 A
time to cast away stones, and a
time to gather stones together; a
time to embrace, and a
time to refrain from embracing; 6 A
time to get, and a
time to lose; a
time to keep, and a
time to cast away; 7 A
time to rend, and a
time to sew; a
time to keep silence, and a
time to speak; 8 A
time to love, and a
time to hate; a
time of
war, and a
time of peace.
War and the memory of war do indeed have an important place in America's history and identity, but war is certainly not our ìaltar.î There have indeed been times when we have used massive and terrible power against terrible enemies; and yet, right now, brave American soldiers endure great risk to themselves in an effort to avoid killing civilia
War and the memory of
war do indeed have an important place in America's history and identity, but war is certainly not our ìaltar.î There have indeed been times when we have used massive and terrible power against terrible enemies; and yet, right now, brave American soldiers endure great risk to themselves in an effort to avoid killing civilia
war do indeed have an important place in America's history and identity, but
war is certainly not our ìaltar.î There have indeed been times when we have used massive and terrible power against terrible enemies; and yet, right now, brave American soldiers endure great risk to themselves in an effort to avoid killing civilia
war is certainly not our ìaltar.î
There have indeed been
times when we have used massive and terrible power against terrible enemies; and yet, right now, brave American soldiers endure great risk to themselves in an effort to avoid killing civilians.
There was a brief invasion in about 1700 B.C. by the Hyksos kings, and there were imperial wars fought with the nascent Babylonian and Assyrian empires at a later time; but few cultures have enjoyed a longer, more uninterrupted period of development than did E
There was a brief invasion in about 1700 B.C. by the Hyksos kings, and
there were imperial wars fought with the nascent Babylonian and Assyrian empires at a later time; but few cultures have enjoyed a longer, more uninterrupted period of development than did E
there were imperial
wars fought with the nascent Babylonian and Assyrian empires at a later
time; but few cultures have enjoyed a longer, more uninterrupted period of development than did Egypt.
It has some elements correct — just as Homer's Illiad correctly described Troy, and Gone with the Wind correctly described that
there was a Civil
War — but that's only because people of the
time of course knew the landscape they lived in.