In explanation of wars that did occur, however, liberals emphasized a variety of factors.
Now, coinciding with the death last month of Washington's longtime rebel ally in Angola, Jonas Savimbi, a trove of recently declassified American documents seem to overturn conventional explanations of the war's origins.
The contentious passages ranged from explanations of ancient wars to a justification of Japan's colonization of the Korean peninsula in 1910 as necessary for the security of Korea as well as of Japan and Manchuria, which Japan had already occupied.
Products like flight paging, explanations of fare wars [and] surveys all got us great press.
Within Sri Lanka, even Sinhalese critics of the Rajapaksas have been savagely attacked, and challenges to the government's explanation of the war have been brutally put down.
Re "For Now, Bush's Mocking Drowns Out Kerry's Nuanced Explanation of His War Vote" (Political Memo, Aug. 12): In response to President Bush's challenge, John Kerry should point out that insisting on simple yes or no answers to complex and grave issues is precisely what's wrong with this president.
Yes, apparently, there is, and my recitation of the explanation of the "war on Christmas" is, for long-time readers, becoming as heralded a tradition as the yearly airing of Linus Van Pelt's recitation of the Gospel of Luke on national network television!
There was no fog-of-war explanation for it, he said.
In developing the core algorithm of MitoQuant, we adopted the stochastic tug-of-war explanation of mitochondrial bidirectional motion.
I was interested in his explanation of the folly of war and how we have turned people against us.
