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The British counterpart is called Edgehill, which is a U.K. civil
war
battle.
CA: I mean, do you think there's a deeper motivation for them than the
war
against terrorism?
Do you think there's a deeper motivation for them other than the
war
against terrorism?
And so you have a lot of those arcs of instability in the world right now, in places like Syria, where there's a civil
war
going on and you have massive numbers, thousands and thousands of foreign fighters who are coming into Syria to learn how to be terrorists and practice that activity, and lots of those people are Westerners who hold passports to European countries or in some cases the United States, and so they are basically learning how to do jihad and have expressed intent to go out and do that later on in their home countries.
And we discussed this issue with two groups that have been coming to the USA from Southeast Asia: the Hmong, who started coming in the mid-1970s as refugees from the Vietnam
War
and the US secret
war
in Laos; and the Karen, who have been coming more recently as refugees from Myanmar.
You see, I assumed that this was a modern roof that had been put on because the original was destroyed in some long-past
war.
However, Sierra Leone is infamous for a decade-long rebel
war
in the '90s when entire villages were burnt down.
They would, in fact, be part of a Sierra Leone where
war
and amputation were no longer a strategy for gaining power.
For me, a place to begin healing the souls of those affected by
war
and disease is by creating comfortable and affordable interfaces for their bodies.
And Soloveitchik argued that these two sides of our nature are at
war
with each other.
For almost five years I stayed there, and we focused on fighting a
war
that was unconventional and it was difficult and it was bloody and it often claimed its highest price among innocent people.
Both civilians, obviously, and soldiers suffer in war; I don't think any civilian has ever missed the
war
that they were subjected to.
How is it someone can go through the worst experience imaginable, and come home, back to their home, and their family, their country, and miss the
war?
We have to answer that question, because if we don't, it'll be impossible to bring soldiers back to a place in society where they belong, and I think it'll also be impossible to stop war, if we don't understand how that mechanism works.
The problem is that
war
does not have a simple, neat truth, one simple, neat truth.
Any sane person hates war, hates the idea of war, wouldn't want to have anything to do with it, doesn't want to be near it, doesn't want to know about it.
That's a sane response to
war.
But if I asked all of you in this room, who here has paid money to go to a cinema and be entertained by a Hollywood
war
movie, most of you would probably raise your hands.
That's what's so complicated about
war.
And trust me, if a room full of peace-loving people finds something compelling about war, so do 20-year-old soldiers who have been trained in it, I promise you.
I've covered
war
for about 20 years, as I said, but my most intense experiences in combat were with American soldiers in Afghanistan.
That's
war
too, is a lieutenant saying, "Please make something happen because we're going crazy."
I invited him, and he started talking with a woman, one of my friends, and she knew how bad it had been out there, and she said, "Brendan, is there anything at all that you miss about being out in Afghanistan, about the war?"
And he's one of the most traumatized people I've seen from that
war.
If we're going to stop war, we have to answer that question.
Compared to that, war, psychologically, in some ways, is easy, compared to that kind of alienation.
Billy Collins: No wonder you rise in the middle of the night to look up the date of a famous battle in a book on
war.
And famously, you may remember that out on the campaign trail for war, he wrote to his lover, Empress Josephine, saying, "Don't wash.
Andy also talks about the fact that our ocean conservation movement really grew out of the land conservation movement, and in land conservation, we have this problem where biodiversity is at
war
with food production.
But in the oceans, we don't have that
war.
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