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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state... when you go to war, it can't be a half-step.
Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.
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.
Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever.
No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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.
If we don't end war, war will end us.
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.
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