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And history`s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their presence.

— Robert Fisk The Great War for Civilization (2005)

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Now let's be fair. College staff have every right to take their own protection against America's notoriously inaccurate "smart" bombs.

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

The Great War for Civilization (2005)

In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists.

The Great War for Civilization (2005)

Yesterday, with an inevitability born of the utterly false promise that the bloodbath in Iraq is yielding dividends, we were supposed to believe that the death of Zarqawi was a famous victory.

I can't help wondering today how many of the innocents slaughtered in Haditha took the opportunity to vote in the Iraqi elections -- before their "liberators" murdered them.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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