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The Nation agreed. “The war of 1898 ‘for the cause of humanity’ has degenerated in 1899 into a war of conquest, characterized by rapine and cruelty worthy of savages.” Trying to be nice, the magazine conceded that it was “to the credit of our soldiers that while in the heat of battle they carry out the orders to take no prisoners, most of them inwardly revolt at the idea of such barbarism, and want to come home.”
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
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