Director Peckinpah noted it was allegoric of the American war in Vietnam, the violence of which was nightly televised to American homes at supper time.

Everybody who is involved in the control of firearms must be cleared by the National Security Office for at least at the confidential degree of secrecy.

What is the legitimacy of diplomacy, of the the solution we devise as diplomats if they cannot be reflected and understood by also these broader forces of societies that we now very loosely call groups?

I figured, surely some of the most creative artistic minds in the world, really, aren't all defaulting back to this one easy trope like they invented it, right?

Indeed, metaphorically, military power provides a degree of security that is to order as oxygen is to breathing little noticed until it becomes scarce, at which point its absence dominates all else.

The problem was that the money from my last salary was about to run out, and such a lunch gathering would put too much pressure on my already tight budget, but thank God he said it was his treat, i.e. for free, so I went (I am joking, of course 50 shekels is not that much).