Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.
War is too strange to process alone.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.
Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.
There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.
War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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