The war was not the only campaign issue, but so many others -- race, busing, even school prayer -- to some extent became mixed with the war in the minds of voters, who found the senator too tolerant of social protest of all kinds and of change in general.
Many still assume that Mr. Ungar wrote "Ashokan Farewell" with the Civil War in mind.
Afghanistan was also inextricably linked in my mind with the war in Iraq, a war that I never supported in a country that seemed to be falling apart with sectarian battles despite everything that had transpired since Saddam Hussein's fall from power.
In discussing the coming realignment of American troops, Pentagon officials have recently made clear that the changes were being made with the possibility of war in mind.
In retrospect, it may be they arrived too late instead of too early, if the agreement had been made with the Second Lombard Gepid War in mind.
With the war in Vietnam peaking at the time when Ms. Grossman began making them, in 1968, questions about the kinds of minds that were driving the war machine were in the air.
But this treaty was designed after World War I with international war in mind, not internal conflicts.
The war in Iraq comes to mind.
With this in mind, images from the war in Afghanistan, the conflict in Mexico, and of the devastation in Haiti and the Gulf were not a surprise.
With the just war theory in mind, contingent pacifism may focus either on the basis for war (as in the just war idea of jus ad bellum), on the way that the war is being fought (as in the just war idea of jus in bello), or on the expected outcome of the war (as in the idea of jus post bellum).
