war
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Sep 11 2013
– Winston Churchill, a British politician, best known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War.
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
Feb 18 2013
– Elie Wiesel, a Romanian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Oct 11 2012
– Edmund Burke, was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party.
Second Libyan Civil War
Mar 8 2012
This photo really gives you the feel of how things were in Libya. The bus beside the militia–man and the house behind his back is all cratered by bullet holes. Photo by Nic Bothma (EPA file).
