But the West has an even bigger interest in preserving the post-Cold War environment.
Two referendums on conscription for overseas service had been defeated during the war, preserving the volunteer status of the Australian force, but stretching the reserves of manpower available, particularly towards the end of the fighting.
Despite isolation from his conservative colleagues, Mathias played an influential role in fostering African American civil rights, ending the Vietnam War, preserving the Chesapeake Bay, and constructing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
If anything, the war against terrorism provides an ever-more-powerful rationale for preserving the U.S. military for serious wars against people who want to do us harm.
Britain's policy towards migrants, like that of many other EU states, remains short-sighted, inward-looking and defensive, and that has to change if we are to preserve the post-war vision of Europe.
However, speaking at his annual end-of-year news conference, he made clear that Russia, Syria's longtime ally, was now mainly concerned about averting "never-ending civil war," not preserving the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.
Lincoln, who used the Gettysburg Address to shift the focus of the Civil War from preserving the Union to preserving the notion of equality, drew inspiration from Pericles, as did Gandhi, who picked up a handful of salt on a beach and declared that that one gesture was the beginning of the process of self determination for the Indian people.
Memorial Day was first called Decoration Day, to honor those who died preserving the Union in the Civil War.
The second is a battered trunk that Némirovsky's 12-year-old daughter, Denise Epstein, had been pressed upon to preserve through the war as she and her younger sister were secreted away to avoid their parents' fates.
In 1967, Sakakini´s daughters discovered her father´s books with the notes he inscribed on them, perfectly preserved despite the war.
On Sept. 22, 1862 the war to preserve the Union became a war to create freedom.
