[eskimo]

This war will go down as the safest war fought in the history of mankind.

War is not supposed to be "safe"; it is bloody, it is horrible, it’s the basest of human endeavors and should leave rational men, forced into war, never wanting to repeat the experience. It is not a political tool and should never be glorified especially by pusillanimous political propagandists.

I’m old. If you are not, it’s your turn. Don’t f^(& it up.

[kabar]

War is not supposed to be "safe"; it is bloody, it is horrible, it’s the basest of human endeavors and should leave rational men, forced into war, never wanting to repeat the experience. It is not a political tool and should never be glorified especially by pusillanimous political propagandists.

"The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes. "

"War is nothing but a continuation of politics by other means."

Karl von Clausewitz

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
"...it’s the basest of human endeavors"

You are wrong. War is a noble endeavor in which citizens offer themselves up to defend their homeland and their fellow citizens.

That it is "bloody" and "horrible" is true, but Iraqis wouldn't stand in line to be blown up outside the recruiting stations if that were all it mattered.

Michael Frazier