We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
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It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would we have behaved in the face of danger and when forced to make major moral choices.
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
I think, as a nation, we didn't learn our lessons from the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. We should have been more careful in a whole host of areas.
We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?
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