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The danger is that scientific decisions with a scientific-technical component are no longer subject to study or rational argument, but instead are fought over by various interest groups, with some invariably claiming that their taxes should be used to fund only research that is compatible with their values.
Two horrific wars with local separatists, from 1994-1996 and from 1999- 2006, have been fought over Chechnya, presumably to secure Russia’s territorial integrity.
We Russians fought these wars in order to demonstrate to the Chechens that they, too, were citizens of Russia.
Indeed, the paradox today is that Islamists seem to be losing influence in the Arab world while strengthening their position in the North Caucasus, where the Kremlin has fought a twelve-year war without understanding the scope of the tragedy taking place – a civil and ethnic war for which the Kremlin itself bears significant responsibility.
Instead of integrating India into the global capitalist system, as only a handful of post-colonial countries – for example, Singapore – chose to do, India’s leaders (and those of most former colonies) were convinced that the political independence that they had fought for could be guaranteed only through economic independence.
The losers were those where policymakers fought the market and supported declining industries.
In this narrative, the Civil War was fought to ensure “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Common Sense’s followers often refer to Antonio Gramsci’s theory of “cultural war” – according to which values are inherently in conflict and must be fought over – overlooking the irony of invoking an Italian Marxist to defend Catholicism.
The European Union provides the best model for how neighbors that have long fought each other can come together for mutual benefit.
The leaders that brought on failure and the groups that did not triumph become heroes for being able to claim that they courageously fought the enemy without being crushed.
The election in Germany was in part fought on the issue, as Chancellor Angela Merkel ran on a platform of offering Turkey a “privileged partnership,” rather than full admission.
Similarly, there will still be wars, fought with ever more brutal and destructive weapons.
The Killing ForestsNEW YORK – Edwin Chota was killed in the forest he had fought to protect.
For a long time, Merkel fought this new EU tooth and nail, because she knows how unpopular it is in Germany – and thus how politically dangerous it is to her electoral prospects.
At the close of his second book, Armstrong summarized his history with cancer as: “I got treated, I fought like hell, and I got better.”
The OUN broke with the Nazis after they denied Ukraine independence, and finally fought the Soviets and both the army of Communist Poland and the anticommunist Polish underground after the Germans were routed.
Last month, the Lebanese army showed considerable fortitude as it fought Islamic State militants in the village of Arsal, near the border with Syria.
Indeed, Breivik’s interpretation of their words is, in an odd way, more rational than the idea that a war for our very survival can be fought with words alone.
Having fought against what they regarded as the tyranny of George III, the American revolutionaries wanted to ensure that no such tyranny could arise in the new nation that they were establishing.
Of course, given that Japan and Korea have not fought a series of wars against each other, their relationship is not the same as that between Germany and France.
In April, the EU pledged €3 billion ($3.4 billion) to support Syrian refugees in Turkey, and education has been listed as a top priority – a mark of recognition for all those who fought to bring the issue to the table.
The US fought its longest-ever war in Afghanistan, at a cost (so far) of more than $555 billion, not to mention tens of thousands of Afghan civilian casualties and close to 3,100 US troops killed.
Pakistani army commandos fought the intruders for several hours before killing the last attacker.
The former have supplied the leadership and foot soldiers to the Pakistani Taliban and the latter has fought, often with devastating effect, against the government in Kabul and American and NATO troops.
In Malaya, ethnic Chinese fought British and Malay regiments and police, which is roughly comparable to the Tamils' fight against the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka.
In Mali, France fought a tough battle to prevent extremists from overrunning the country.
But these are not the main grounds upon which the torture debate is being fought out in the US today.
Those with a sense of history will also see the significance of Europe’s nation states, which not long ago fought each other continuously, now pooling their foreign policies in order to assert them more vigorously on the global stage.
And yet Hirohito still managed to sidestep the question of his own responsibility in a war that was so obviously fought in his name.
Some central bankers like to recall Winston Churchill’s paean to the heroism of those who fought the decisive Battle of Britain: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
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