Drawing comparisons between theBosnian conflictand the SecondWorld War, aMuslim woman, AlmiraZec, advises LieutenantFeeley thatsome form ofWestern intervention is requiredto preventarepeatof the 1940s;“history is screamingatus,”she tells him. But the use of WWIIanalogies to justify military ...
The War of Good and EvilWhy do people detect? The answer may help us to think a bit about why people read about detection. The answers are various. Poirot detects out of professionalism, boredom, a liking for sport, the...doi:10.1057/9780230590786_8R. A. YorkPalgrave Macmillan UK...
War, in the popular sense, a conflict between political groups involving hostilities of considerable duration and magnitude. Sociologists usually apply the term to such conflicts only if they are initiated and conducted in accordance with socially recogn
Abstract We remember mass America’s fierce, homo americanus response to the French refusal to collaborate with the US ‘preemptive’ invasion of Iraq in 2003 and with the subsequent occupation of the formerly sovereign Middle Eastern nation. Homo americanus invectives against the French consisted in...
The 2020 election between Trump and Biden was close, so close that the appearance of a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden which showed both Hunter and Joe tangled up in foreign money could have swung the race. Democrats again responded with a manipulation, another full-on falsehood, with 52 Dee...
(Willem Dafoe).Platoon’s most memorable achievement, however, is the way it captures the cloudiness and confusion of fighting a war in which the demands of his superiors, and the desire to survive, can blur the divide between good and evil.(Stream onMGM+,Pluto TV,The Roku Channel, and...
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to Israel amid the war between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Oct. 18, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters President Joe Biden reaffirmed U.S. commitment to Israel and announced$100 million in humanitarian assistanceto support those in Gaza and...
No, I am not. It would be simplistic and wrong to say such a thing," Pope Francis said, adding: "I am simply against reducing complexity to the distinction between good guys and bad guys without reasoning about roots and interests, which are very complex." ...
I don’t think I have anything further to add at this time, except to note again that this is ultimately a classic trade-off between liberty and safety. Not everyone will agree on where on that spectrum is appropriate, and what constitutes an acceptable versus unacceptable risk, and that’...
This is a very fun and light-hearted film that is impossible not to like. Based on a French novel that has also been adapted a couple of times in France, the story is transported to Ireland and concerns the rivalry between the kids from two villages. Carrickdowse and Ballydowse are separ...