For Mr. Chirac himself, the Iraqi crisis involves a fundamental principle: war should be the very last resort.
"This is a fundamental turf war between bankruptcy lawyers and bankruptcy petition preparers," said Jason Searns, the general counsel of the biggest form-preparation company, We the People.
Veering between the formal influence of Robbe-Grillet and the visionary tradition of dreamers like William Blake and Lautréamont, they are hyper-realistic tales dominated by the fundamental war between cities and nature, between mankind and mythology.
The future cost of caring for veterans is a fundamental cost of war, and honest budgeting would include it in accounting for war cost.
At Fort Leavenworth, Kan., officers of the Command and General Staff College have been examining the Army's most fundamental war-fighting doctrine to shove the service into the new century and prepare for the unpredictable conflicts that arrived on Sept. 11, far earlier than anticipated.
Moreover, he argues that the news media, especially television, contribute to a fundamental misunderstanding about war, as well as its romanticization.
The destruction of enemy possessions and territory was a fundamental strategy of war, serving the dual purpose of punishment and deprivation of resources.
Mr. Bush added, "Confusing food programs with terrorist killings reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the war we face and that is very dangerous thinking".
Representative Walter B. Jones, Republican of North Carolina, captured the war-weariness expressed by many members as he offered a heartfelt plea to General Allen and Mr. Miller to answer a fundamental question about the war in Afghanistan that had been posed to him by a wounded Marine.
On the situation in Iraq, Senator John McCain, a supporter of Mr. Bush, his fellow Republican, but also a friend of Mr. Kerry, his fellow Vietnam veteran and Senate colleague, publicly disagreed with the president's assertion that Mr. Kerry had a "fundamental misunderstanding" of the war in Iraq.
