Supporters of Nato's Libyan war counter that, even if the country is now plagued by chaos and violence, there was no western military intervention in Syria and more than 150,000 have died in its horrific civil war.
He's planning to be the first mayor in the United States to decorate the facade of City Hall with a large, digital "cost of war" counter, funded entirely by private contributions.
In the years before his retirement, he was seconded to MI5 to help with cold war counter-espionage.
You say that "Egyptians remember that it was Mr Sharon who flouted a ceasefire during the 1973 war, counter-attacking across the Suez Canal to turn Egypt's initial success into near-defeat".
Egyptians remember that it was Mr Sharon who flouted a ceasefire during the 1973 war, counter-attacking across the Suez Canal to turn Egypt's initial success into near-defeat.
A complication of second world war counter-history, as Sansom acknowledges in an afterword, is that depictions of a German victory involve fingering historical British figures as Nazi collaborators.
In the early 20th century, Elihu Root, the secretary of war, countered a move to make the island into a park by adding 103 acres of landfill from the subways.
"We shouldn't say this is not an expansion of the war," countered Rummy, then head of the anti-poverty agency, "that's just not credible".
However, other factors also intensified the revolutionary cause: the introduction of social Darwinist ideas by Yen Fu after the Sino-Japanese War countered the reformists' theory of change based on the Chinese Classics; and Western and revolutionary thoughts came to be easily and widely diffused through a growing number of journals and pamphlets published in Tokyo, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.
Dedicated to guaranteeing Israel's right to exist, my father saw in President Richard M. Nixon an ally who, at the onset of the Yom Kippur War, countered Arab attacks by creating emergency financial and military supply lines to Israel, despite the fact that Arab nations were imposing an international oil embargo and some of America's closest allies refused to facilitate America's arms shipments.
We're just in the early stages of trying to find the Iraq War counter-narrative, but we can't find it because the war really isn't over.
