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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and th

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war. – James Buchan

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Bulls dont read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929. – James Buchan

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History
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times. – James Buchan

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The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britains belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago. – James Buchan

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. – Miguel de Cervantes

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I ended the war a horse ahead. – Nathan Bedford Forrest

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What a cruel thing war is… to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. – Robert E. Lee

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Weve finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they dont want to fight it. They would except that it would put them on the same side as the United States. – Ann Coulter

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