War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.
War is in the eyes.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.
War means fighting, and fighting means killing.
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.
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
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