Sentence examples for initiating war from inspiring English sources

"The fundamental question is left unanswered: Why initiating war against Saddam is better than the next option, which is deterring and containing him," Professor Allison said.

"The United States came to the brink of initiating war to stop North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons," according to a recent article in the Washington Post by William Perry and Ashton Carter, who were secretary and assistant secretary of defence during the crisis.

Members of Congress would have little to gain but much to lose politically by initiating war.

But initiating war likely would inhibit reform in Iraq while making the world a more dangerous place.

The debacle in Iraq demonstrated how initiating war allegedly to do good was a costly means of doing much bad, to not only Americans but other peoples.

President William Jefferson Clinton similarly flouted the Constitution by unilaterally initiating wars over Bosnia and Kosovo when Congress balked.

Two days later Berchtold persuaded Franz Joseph to initiate war.

He was fiercely anti-war, and had no trouble pronouncing those that initiated war as putzes.

Hitler's absence allows none other than Stalin to move in and initiate war with the United States.

There is no doubt that they intended that Congress and not the Pres. to possess the power to initiate war against other nations.

The question of whether presidents may initiate war has been disputed since 1950, when President Harry S. Truman went to war in Korea without going to Congress.