People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.
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Under well-settled legal principles, lethal force against a valid military objective, in an armed conflict, is consistent with the law of war and does not, by definition, constitute an 'assassination.'
People are just fascinated by assassinations.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.
Killing is the payoff of war.
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
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