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...There were triumphant victories, shattering defeats, questionable acts in the heat of battle and tears for fallen comrades. Then, as the fighting dragged on: criticism at home, disillusionment and finally despair. "I am saddened by the outcome of this all," declared prOphet, a one-time American war hero turned pacifist. Blasting his comrades for calling the enemy "gooks and worse," he delivered a 21st century soldier's eulogy to peace, love and understanding: "Just drop this already - on both sides."The first superpower cyberwar lasted nine days. By its end, more than 2,000 websites in China...
...fighters and guided missile destroyers - newspapers were enraged last year when Tokyo's governor, the nationalist Shintaro Ishihara, referred to the Self-Defense Force as a "military." Years ago, children of Japan's 240,000 servicemen and women were bullied by schoolteachers: teachers' unions in Japan are strongly pacifist. The army's involvement in peacekeeping missions since 1992 has changed that image and teachers now take kids on day trips to military bases to hear about relief operations. Japan's constitution, which is up for debate, renounces war as a way to solve international conflict. Many conservatives believe it puts...
...Although he previously had Washington's ear as the popular, pacifist advocate of independence for Kosovo, that changed after the Rambouillet talks early in 1999 when the West began to gear up to fight Slobodan Milosevic for control of the territory. The war saw Rugova eclipsed by the KLA leadership, and by the time it ended State Department officials were feting Thaci and expressing wariness over Rugova. But the continuing violence in Kosovo, which includes both attacks on the remaining Serbs and internecine Albanian turf wars, may have turned many Kosovar Albanians back to Rugova, particularly in light...
...inauspicious beginning. Established under the will of 19th century munitions maker Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896), it was as much an attempt to redeem the reputation of its founder--best known in his day as the inventor of dynamite--as to award the accomplishments of its recipients. Nobel, a pacifist who liked to write poetry, had intended his explosive to be used mostly for peaceful purposes and was dismayed that it became so powerful an instrument of war. In 1888 a French newspaper--thinking it was Alfred and not his brother who had passed on--ran his obituary under...
...roots lie in the pacifist Mennonite tradition. As a spiritual seeker, I have sojourned for a time with many other expressions of faith. My Mennonite, evangelical, reformed Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Quaker heart is warmed by Gore's selection of Lieberman. The integration of Lieberman's beliefs into his life sets a high standard of spiritual practice. Gore's choice exemplifies grace with grit. DORIS LIECHTY LORA Los Angeles...