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...apparently unfamiliar diplomatic chore: inspecting an honor guard. He trudged down the line too quickly, hardly looking at it, much less inspecting it. When the commander of the guard finally caught up with him, Kissinger thrust out his hand, only to discover that the Moroccan commander had a sword in his right hand. After an awkward shift of the sword, they finally clasped hands. Said one onlooker who was traveling with Kissinger: "Certainly the first chapter of this trip must be titled 'Henry amongst the Berbers...
...many of his favorite gods were gods of war, man has invoked the deity in battle. Medieval Crusaders cut their way toward Jerusalem-sometimes through fellow Christians-shouting "Deus vult!" (God wills it!). Yankee soldiers in the Civil War marched into battle singing about God's "terrible swift sword." In World War II, both sides felt that God was behind them: Wehrmacht soldiers fought with GOTT MIT UNS emblazoned on their belt buckles; Americans were urged to "praise the Lord and pass the ammunition...
Perks and Palaces. As between Cavaliers and Roundheads, this is a portrait of Cromwell that no Roundhead sympathizer could fault. When Cromwell puts a thousand innocent men, women, children and priests to the sword at Drogheda, the author tells us he was in a fit of passion. Did he smash and savage churches in England? Well, choirs and pageantry and opulent vestments outraged his Puritan conscience...
...exception in our history. I came out of the ranks of these forces and have lived their traditions. [Their] record was magnificent, but our enemies-old and new imperialism and world Zionism-tried to [besmirch] this record so as to make the nation doubt its shield and its sword...
...really a question: Would the fourth round of fighting have come so soon, and would it have been fought with such Arab tenacity, had not the Egyptians felt a just grievance at the loss of their lands east of Suez, and believed that what was held by the sword could only be freed by the sword...