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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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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.
It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight.
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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