But it was a critical episode in his life — and, more important, a critical moment in the war, because it turned on differences between Halleck and Grant — one at the height of his power, one still unsure of his future — that highlighted two divergent paths forward in the drive toward Union victory.
Evidently the War on Terror turned on a Canadian money faucet for Stratfor and other private intelligence firms, whose government shilling now blurs the line between state secrets and market commodities.
She claims that those who are turned on by war make war even where it is inappropriate--upon drug-takers, poor people, illegal immigrants, juvenile delinquents, etc.
The question remains: why are some people so turned on by war?
A result, analysts said, is a tug of war that turns on each fresh data point.
After Sputnik, as the cold war turned crucially on primacy in science and engineering, both Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy brought into the Oval Office the President's Science Advisory Committee -- a group of our most eminent thinkers -- with no thought of their political affiliation.
"Republicans who brought us this awful war turned their backs on the men and women who fight it," a narrator said.
Many veterans of the Second World War, including some who had suffered terribly under the Japanese as prisoners of war, turned their backs on the procession, in a silent protest: the most effective method by far).
This tendency of art music to steer clear of the ugly began to wane by the 20th century and, by the time the Futurists published a manifesto to make music that reflected the grind of industry and the machinery of war, the tide was turning on traditional notions of musical beauty.
There's no debate about how that war turned out, but little agreement on why.
