The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
War remains the decisive human failure.
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.
I think that is a noble goal that all of us should seek, to end wars and prevent wars as much as possible.
For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.
I think so many times in our society we focus so much on just the end result; when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal.
Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state... when you go to war, it can't be a half-step.
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