It's likely that people would not have liked them, and that the modernism the war represented was something they never wanted to see again.
The war also represented Russia's continuing struggle for the access to the Black Sea.
The war in Iraq and the ensuing difficulties there represented a turning point.
When war represents a disproportionate response to a threat or an injury, it raises questions of justice related to reciprocity.
It is evidence of sheer wonder at the inept foreign policy this war represents.
What is there, is a consensus about the danger that this war represents for the whole region.
The war in neighbouring Chechnya represents an additional threat to Georgia.
For me, war always represents a failure of the spirit, of human spirit and intelligence.
On the left, including labor unions, students and intellectuals, the war represented a necessary battle to stop the spread of Fascism.
Tony Benn once stated that all war represents a failure of diplomacy.
