Sentence examples for war tragic from inspiring English sources

In this formulation, Mr. Romney is not calling the end of the war tragic.

Mr. Romney, he said, believed that Russia — not Al Qaeda — posed the greatest peril to the United States and that ending the Iraq war was "tragic".

His letters chronicled everyday ups and downs, along with the escalation of a war whose tragic outcome he would not live to see.

'A Long Long Way' is a masterpiece... His lyrical Irish writing makes me want to read each page again, and he has a very interesting take on the Irish civil war: a tragic view; he doesn't take sides.

But Mr. Romney does not argue that ending the war was tragic — or even that it was wrong to bring home the bulk of the American forces in Iraq.

"Old-style assaults en masse had no place in a modern battlefield dominated by small arms and artillery fire," comments William Philpott about the First World War's tragic mistakes.

Not only was the war a tragic mistake, but President Bush must also be held accountable for misleading the public about Iraq and for quickly dragging us into this generation's Vietnam.

Fast wanted to recover the lost passion, the human reality of a nation at war, the tragic no less than the glorious.

He has often said "War is tragic", echoing Blair's quote, "War is horrible".

That might well be the ultimate metaphor of war's tragic stupidity.

In looking forward ten years, we must look back at this "lost decade" of war and tragic lost opportunities.