Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest.
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
Wars have economies. And I don't mean financial economies, although that's often part of it. Why do people continue fighting these wars? There are financial incentives.
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Political battles are won when the rich favor them.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.