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Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

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Can-do Americans courageously go about their duty in Iraq - mostly unafraid that a culture of 2,000 years, the reality of geography,…
Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because…
Did either the nonexistent or the measured response after a series of attacks on Americans the past decade - in Lebanon, Africa,…
For all the criticism about warlords, it is now likely that Afghanistan will never again be turned over to al Qaeda to…
It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost…
Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.
Taking on all at once Germany, Japan, and Italy - diverse enemies all - did not require the weeding out of all…
The American people are not naifs who yearn for isolationism, but they are starting to ask some hard questions about the way…
The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it…
I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political…
Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant…
In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for…

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The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently,… — Luis Walter Alvarez
We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken… — Barack Obama
The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges… — Adolf Hitler
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men. — Cardinal Richelieu
Military men are the scourges of the world. — Guy de Maupassant
Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria. — Victor Davis Hanson
It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him. — Murray Kempton
You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges… — Heinrich Heine
If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you… — Charles Dudley Warner
The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ.… — Pope Benedict XIV
Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it, .. The two scourges feed off each… — Peter Eigen
Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our… — Rachel Carson

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