...—which sell between 3 and 10 million copies a day—each devoted many columns to the case. Also, the court order to retrieve all unsold copies of The Sword and the Cold Carthamin from booksellers proved to be impossible in practical terms. The book was readily available for years afterward. It must...

...Eliza Griswold © World Policy Institute 2015 2015 World Policy Institute Sparrow’s Feet I. Jerusalem 586 B.C. They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger...

... Scriptural The Suez Crisis of 1956 required inser­ passage: “They shall beat their swords into tion of a multinational peacekeeping force as ploughshares, and their spears into pruning a buffer between Israel and Egypt. Bunche hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against had a major role...

... of the Jewish state is under sys­ zony, the pen is indeed mightier than the tematic attack from its own cultural and sword: Zionism fought its first war with intellectual establishment.” the sword, but while doing so it was poten­ Thus, it turns out that it is not so much tially fatally weakened...

... is central to Islamic history. Armed with shield and sword, Ka’ab sustained wounds and inflicted them on others. Women inspired by her example could train in the Islamic State’s Al-Zawra School for female recruits. The group says on its website that it serves women who are “interested in explosive belt...

... their swords— an exception being the Allied failure in World War I to compel the Kaiser’s generals to thus acknowledge defeat. It was a lapse that fathered the legend that civilians lost the war, a myth that Hitler lethally exploited. After Baghdad’s fall, and following the oft-broadcast toppling...

... for the Marines, reaches back to Sophocles’ account of Ajax, who slipped into a depression after the Trojan War, slaughtered a flock of sheep in a crazed state, and then fell on his own sword. For about a week, I searched for, and finally located, Nash’s email address. I quickly drafted my best pitch...

... Brotherhood increas­ Islam with his sword.” ing its power in Egyptian elections, and This was no ordinary prayer and is not regimes in the region appearing unthreat­ normally used, but it is the same prayer ened by democracy, it was radical Islam that used in every message put out by al-Qaeda...

... goal of government change—but with one central difference. China wants India’s voice, just not its noise. The Chinese appreciate the double-edged sword change can bring. Everyone having a say all too often can mean nothing really gets done. “India’s democracy still seems messy and unfinished...

... in Shakir conducts jihad with the sword. God Peshawar, Pakistan, and operated by the becomes happy with the defeat of the Rus­ Afghan mujahidin (holy warriors), pub­ sians lished a series of primary education text­ Z al [is for] Oppression (zulm). books replete with images of Islamic...

..., and cabalistic symbols rifled from the arsenals of faith. Not coincidentally, Stalin was a lapsed priest, the Nazis seized on symbolism from medieval crusades, and Mussolini, like the pope, thundered his words from a balcony. The Swords of Faith We live in a world carved by warriors inflamed by either...

... the arsenals of destruction that the industrial revolution made possible, and Ethiopia’s motley warriors armed with spears, swords, and shields is cast not only as the event that cemented Ethiopia’s statehood but also as a proud symbol of black resistance against European colonial rule...

... a message by riding a horse, fighting foes with sword and pistol, swimming a river, then running to his destination. Yet the explanation may be more innocent. Coubertin wanted to sell his creation—warfare as a competitive metaphor. Looking beyond the Olympics, the boundaries between play and war can blur...

... interest in negotiating with domestic insurgents like Tehrik-e-Taliban, as well as the Taliban in Afghanistan. Both may turn out to be double-edged swords. Past peace deals with the Pakistani Taliban have allegedly seen settlement money flowing to Al Qaeda—but it is better that we are part...

... pulling his gun on colleagues in parliament against Yugoslaviathe gloves are off. Now to making public statements meant to shock it’s crystal clear: he who lives by the sword (“I want to dig out the eyes of Croats with a shall die by the sword, and all of you should rusty spoon At The Hague, he...

.... tion will be endangered,” he warned The E m e p is working on a “swords to plow­ principal contributors to premature death shares” initiative that would employ former are cardiovascular disease and the effects of Soviet bio-warfare scientists to redirect their violence. More than half...

... [Ghaffar Khan] is a Pathan and a In that same year, 1930, soldiers of the Pathan may be said to be born British Raj belonging to the Garhwal Reg­ with a rifle or a sword in his hand. iment, famously disobeyed orders to open But [Ghaffar Khan] deliberately fire on nonviolent...

... belled and every Hindustani jihadist found tember he was knifed to death in his bunga­ in the Vale was dragged from his prayers low by a tribesman from Swat. Nevertheless, and put to the sword. Syed Ahmad and his the raid forced the Hindustanis to put off companions survived the massacre and fled...

... combined, and ten Japanese died for every of song and haters of swords, had more of it American. But the Good War’s last full- than the mainlanders, then gripped by their scale encounter killed more civilians than romance with honorable death. combatants. The instruments of that slaugh­ But if exact...