The wisdom is simple: "Anything worth having is worth fighting for" and "If football's not your game, so what?" In the scales of conflict that furnish its plot, "Family Tree" weighs the old tree against new industry in a dying town beset by widespread unemployment.
Assange said the snapshots of everyday events offered a glimpse at the "human scale" of the conflict.
First, the backlash against the benefit's withdrawal from the better-off, which cast a shadow over his conference speech yesterday, reveals the scale of likely conflict.
Democratic leaders attack the Administration for its unilateralism, but, with a few exceptions, they have been unprepared to reckon with the nature and scale of the conflict; and this has to do with the Party's own intellectual shortcomings.
In Smith's photograph the only people visible are the marine and his captives: proof of the restricted scale of modern conflict relative to the first world war and, at the same time, of its expansion into the realm of non-combatants, civilians.
Of course, that partly reflects the enormity of the system itself and the scale of the conflict that ended it: the Civil War (which began in South Carolina) was the first modern war.But it also reflects a failure of political leadership over many years.
"If we are dealing with a single event rather than skirmishes over several weeks, it has a great impact on our interpretation of the scale of the conflict". .
The SPD deputy leader in the Bundestag (lower house), Joachim Poss, said German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble "has apparently not yet grasped the scale of the conflict [with Switzerland]".
The scale of the conflict is staggering.
