Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected.
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Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.
There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.
The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.
War is not civilized.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are as much every U.S. citizen's wars as they are the veterans' wars. If we don't assume that civilians have just as much ownership and the moral responsibilities that we have as a nation when we embark on something like that, then we're in a very bad situation.
War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.
For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.
Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.
Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.
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