Word: soldiers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unresponsive Love and of Inert Concern which blesses no more, and damages no less, than straight-forward cynicism. Quiet compassion and relaxed (i.e., controllable) self-accusation are no less evil in their end-results than those more blatant actions of overt destruction executed by the redneck cop, ill-educated soldier, ice-cold corporation-leader. Different in temper, intellectual dispassion and self-exile of this kind is nonetheless the same in faithful service of an unjust social order. Less explicit in form, it is no less brutal in its operation. Covered with ivy and pronounced with low-key, understated intonations...
...Israelis had converted one bunker into a first-aid station. The soldiers stood silently, saying nothing, not even smoking. Others were sprawled out as still as corpses. "They're not dead," one grizzled trooper explained, "just dead tired." He explained that the men had been in combat since the opening shots of the war. One soldier asked me to phone a message to his parents. On a piece of paper ripped from a brown grocery bag he scribbled: "Dear Mom and Dad. I am writing this between battles. Don't worry. I'm O.K. Everything is fine...
...wrong time." Moreover, the Israelis are hardly seeking the same order of U.S. aid as the South Vietnamese did. Says Idaho Senator Frank Church, a longtime opponent of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam but staunchly for arms aid to Israel: "The Israelis have never asked for a single American soldier to fight in their defense." Adds James M. Wall, editor of the Christian Century: "The Viet Nam conflict was an internal conflict. This is a conflict between two powers over specific external borders...
...country this brilliant, aggressive and fiercely devoted soldier would stand out as a talented strategist. The mastermind behind Egypt's assault on the formidable Bar-Lev Line on the east side of the Suez Canal, Shazli, 52, has long awaited his chance to prove the Arabs' military prowess. Educated at the Egyptian military academy and trained in the Soviet Union, he has been an officer since the first Palestine war of 1948. After the 1967 Six-Day War, he commanded Egypt's "special forces" and later the elite commando unit that forayed across the Suez Canal into...
...enters Galley's head at crucial moments to deliver other thoughts that often seem inconsistent with the man-is-only-a-cog theory that permeates the book. Calley decides to tell the truth at his trial, says Sack, because "a lie violated the inner consistency of what every soldier did in Viet Nam." He is thus viewed as a loyal robot unable to make moral distinctions, while at the same time Sack tells us about Calley's intelligence and honor. Few readers are likely to swallow such contradictions. Despite Sack's intent to exculpate Calley...