We've chosen to live with war. But it is unnecessary.

It has sort of an anti-war feel to it. Controversy over this is to be expected at such a 'Bush-backed' university.

The idea is to render to viewers that war and peace are sacred concepts.

I'm not so much a pacifist, I'm against imperialism. The war I fought in was an imperialist war, and the war we are in now is an imperialist war.

Everybody is treated the same way. You have dramatically eroded the symbolism, and after all, this is the war of ideas and symbols as much as the war of substance.

the throwback feel of a mission during the Cold War, when American officials saw their main job as bolstering the hemisphere's governments against leftist insurgencies and Communist infiltration. During stops in Paraguay and Peru, Mr. Rumsfeld and his aides warned of what they consider to be 'troublemaking' by President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and Washington's old cold war foe, Fidel Castro.