Peter L. Bergen
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NAOMI KLEIN After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States entered into World War II to protect our... KARA MARTINELLI H. ROSS PEROT It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years. H ROSS PEROT This could possibly be the worst period of Sino-Japanese relations since World War II. JAMES MULVENON DAN QUAYLE GORE VIDAL All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous e... EISAKU SATO The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war. TOWNSEND HARRIS The pre-World War II era, when an imperial Japan attempted to secure an exclusive economic sphere fo... CHRISTOPHER PREBLE NOAM CHOMSKY WILLIAM SAFIRE HIDEKI TOJO DAVID SHIELDS: Salinger told Whit Burnett... that on D-Day he was carrying six chapters of 'The Catc... 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HERMANN EILTS HARRY SEIDLER ADAM SCHIFF MICHAEL IGNATIEFF SIMON KUZNETS It's a very important part of the 20th century and World War II. LARRY WILCOX ANG LEE China's major trading partners are the United States, the euro land, Japan, Korea, etc., and natural... ZHOU XIAOCHUAN NOAM CHOMSKY In parts of the United States, there are cast iron water pipes that date back to the late 1800s and ... ALEX SEAGLE KOUSHUN TAKAMI RANDALL JARRELL RANDALL JARRELL DOUGLAS BRINKLEY JOHN MADDEN President Bush was in trouble. Nothing was going right, and the war in Iraq was rapidly losing suppo... MICHAEL GOODWIN Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by... C. ROBERT KEHLER We can't forget Pearl Harbor, but I'm afraid that we might. At one time we had some young people fro... JACK HANNA It was a massive campaign and a crushing blow for Japan which was already in a bad way after fightin... NIGEL STEEL PRINCE WILLIAM PRINCESS DIANA CATHERINE THE GREAT KATE MIDDLETON KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker. ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha... ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... 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