When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.
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.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.
War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.
I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
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