After 1995, the world handed over guilt money for reconstruction, dragged a token number of war criminals to The Hague to trial and told everyone else it was time to start getting along.
We can even administer the defrosted sperm of a deceased male who lived and died in Berlin as a token of cold war diplomacy.
Rumsfeld, meanwhile, was poised to become the longest-serving Defense Secretary ever, and was already a powerful token of the war itself, freighted with all its failures and controversies, from the abuses at Abu Ghraib to the harsh interrogation policy that Rumsfeld had personally endorsed.
Thirdly, by the same token that powerful beneficiaries of war and military-security capital tend to promote suspicion, to create fear and invent enemies, both at home and abroad, they also undermine democratic values and nurture authoritarian rule.
After the war, Grant gave Markland the saddle he had used during the Civil War as a token of his esteem.
We're asking them to come down and accept these tokens of the global war on terror that we don't want to be a part of anymore".
But it seems like the perfect opportunity for a Yakov Smirnoff token of wisdom: "In America, you declare war.
Serving as life president of the Far East Prisoners of War Association (FEPOW), he pushed for compensation for his fellow captives, eventually helping to obtain a token £5 million of frozen Japanese assets for this cause.
But, as a token of Iceland's strategic importance in the war, and after lobbying on behalf of Reykjavík city's engineer and a representative of the Danish company in New York, the materials requested were finally delivered despite difficulties.
The battle left 600 Afghans and 35 British dead, a token of the bloodshed that has steeped the region's wars and convinced outsiders of the perils of intervening there.
