I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my incarcerators though they sleep in warm beds, next to their wives, in their homes.

Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.

In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one nation carried the burden of leadership. The unipolar world of the 21st century, dominated for the past two decades by the United States, is a historical anomaly.

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.