The Iraq war bears an eerie resemblance to the Spanish-American war.
Congress, which is supposed to declare wars, bears a great deal of responsibility for this continued open-endedness.
The book's pedigree and commercial muscle are worth considering here because in its early pages "In the Fall" -- which features a weary, wounded soldier walking home from the Civil War -- bears a striking resemblance to "Cold Mountain".
(May features a brief clip from his final film, "Charlie Wilson's War," which bears a surprising resemblance to a scene from "Ishtar").
His character Toby Bell, a rising star in the British foreign service who seeks his country's "true identity in a post-imperial, post Cold War world", bears a resemblance to Edward Snowden.
This book, surveying about 130 eminent art collectors and collections since the second world war, bears him out.
Quebec's legacy of defeat — going back, really, to the French and Indian War — bears down on all of the book's characters, and the act of writing becomes an assertion of selfhood against the backdrop of an inescapable past.
"This was, I think, the most important lesson from our research, confirming the knowledge ingrained in us by the war stories every Polish family has: that war bears down most heavily on those least capable of influencing its outcome".
In some of the cases involving veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, the fact that the suspect went to war bears no apparent relationship to the crime committed or to the prosecution and punishment.
Even the best outcomes now imaginable — like de facto partition and routine terrorism but no civil war — bear more than a passing resemblance to what were once considered disastrously bad possibilities.
