War critics are 'miserable creatures' THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE (Link to Story) November 14, 2003 Joseph Perkins 'War," wrote John Stuart Mill, one of the 19th century's greatest thinkers, "is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. "The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight," Mill continued, "is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." That brings...