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Proxy Sponsorship of Iraq's Coming Civil War

'The History Channel is all reruns.'

Sir Winston Churchill

Neo-International Law

"If we only used bigger clubs we would defeat our enemies every time, and we would dominate them forever!"

'Of all the nerve!...Making us sit through the whole of their Bayeux Tapestries!!'

Israel/Palestine Conflict

'Dewey! Grandpa's stuck again. Give him a couple of whacks upside the head.'

'I think I'll stay in and try to catch up on my reading.'

"I guess I was a good shot, because I took down 50 Nazis...all by myself. That's how I got my silver star. Honestly, I don't consider myself a hero. I consider myself lucky."

Archival Warfare

'General, please hire large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny.'

General Meade's Army, Near Culpepper - Shaving in Camp

'On second thought, perhaps it would look better if your hand was tucked into your jacket.'

Armed forces waiting with nothing to do.

Idlib, Syria - The final stage

Terrorism leaves Iraq and moves on to new places.

"It's going over the top? D' you realise what you've just said?"

"Let me connect you with Edith, our specialist in ethnic conflict in the former Yugoslavia. My expertise happens to be in North Korean intransigence."

Bush and his exit 'strategery'

Nuclear Proliferation

'Ignore them, Charlie. They're nothing but philistines. I liked your poetry, truly I did!'

The unknown war poet.

You can't spell Afghanistan without A, G, A, I, and N.

"Pinpoint havoc, gentlemen, accuracy of mayhem. And yet our dress blues remain crisp and sharp, our hands soft and pink."

Says here the Navy's going to be patrolling the South China Sea. It could spark a history-changing war. Google tells me the last time a Naval conflict changed history, it was the Battle of Midway. You were alive at that time. How awesome was it to already be ancient when Midway happened? I never expected a question like that from a prepubescent stooge like you. Was it as awesome as when you saw Cleopatra lose at the Battle of Actium? I see you're bringing Google's a-game today.

Old veteran walking in sun casting a giant shadow as a young soldier

The USA...

Progress?

Chilcot's report and the blood of martyrs

The Red Baron meets his match.

"Mission 66.666% accomplished."

US strike on Syria.

"What I mean is what do you do with yourself all day?"

"But seriously do you think my eclectic knowledge of the history of the development of the claw hammer makes me more of a sex magnet?"