The phrase "allowing us war" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to express the idea of permitting or enabling war, but the construction is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The treaty was controversial, as it was seen as allowing us war in the future."
Alternatives: "permitting us to engage in war" or "enabling us to go to war".
The applause from everyone who can't name a thing about Pakistan besides Malala is, in reality, gratitude for allowing us a war hero minus the war in which we are unassailable champions, in which all the mythos of an enlightened, forward-thinking West and a violent, perpetually stunted East hold true.
Will the candidates clearly answer how they will ease the strain on the military, allowing us to wage an effective war in Afghanistan, and have the necessary forces to respond to future emergencies?
But over the years we've become so prosperous and we have developed technology that allows us to deliver war to other people, and it never falls on us.
As long as we continue to build these intractable and insurmountable walls between us to make these distinctions, we will continue to have intellectual apparatus that allows us to make wars and that allows to dominate, exploit and destroy others.
It is somewhat unpalatable that the same treaty will very likely not allow US personnel guilty of war crimes to be extradited to the UK.
The bylaws and directives of this war allow US Army helicopter gunners to shoot at unarmed Reuters photographers, and military convoys to fire on busloads of civilians in Afghanistan, and US Special Forces to murder pregnant women and teenaged girls in Iraq.
It allows the rest of us not to have to think about the war; it allows us not to engage politically; it allows politicians to wage war lightly.
"Since 1990," he said, "America has pursued a strategy that would allow us to fight two wars simultaneously, and win both decisively, with the lowest possible risk to our troops.
Like the Bush administration's version of the war on terror, this war with Al Qaeda allows us to follow our enemies wherever they may go.
"War bonds allow us to borrow from ourselves, rather than other countries," he said.
