“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
- Rudyard Kipling
Every war is the
war: the war that will end all wars; the war that will finally crush the
aggressors; the war that will disarm our
opponents and in so teach them a lesson that they will not be tempted to
repeat; war, because (our) god has
told us it is just; war, because the infidels have invaded our land; war,
because they have disrespected our culture and religion; war, because of our
obligation to protect the oppressed; war, because vital resources are at stake; war, because he is a bully to his
people; war, because “[he] tried to kill my dad.”
and war, to prevent terrorism.
“We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.”
~General Omar N. Bradley
Why do we have colleges of war, yet not one of peace?
Why is there no standing army of peace?
Where is the park monument erected to the pacifist, the
antiwar leader, the draft evader?
Where is the world leader who can proudly say “no one died
in violence during my term.”
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
~Issac Asimov
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