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War is the greatest failure of mankind.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

War is failure of diplomacy.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

My belief is that when the military is used as the sole instrument of power, that never has a good outcome. If there's no one to take ownership and develop that failed state, human suffering can be even worse than that created by the conflict itself.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.