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Sara J. (kefuwa)
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There can be circumstances when it's just as foolish to hit an enemy city with an H-bomb as it would be to spank a baby with an axe. War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him...but to make him do what you want to do.
— Mar 15, 2018 03:55PM
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Sara J. (kefuwa)
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To permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy.
— Mar 15, 2018 03:59PM
Sara J. (kefuwa)
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The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself — ultimate cost for perfect value.
— Mar 15, 2018 03:58PM
Sara J. (kefuwa)
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The words are not mine, of course, as you will recognize. Basic truths cannot change and once a man of insight expresses one of them it is never necessary, no matter how much the world changes, to reformulate them. This is an immutable, hue everywhere, throughout all time, for all men and all nations.
— Mar 15, 2018 03:57PM
Sara J. (kefuwa)
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When you reached that spiritual mountaintop you felt something, a new something. Perhaps you haven’t words for it (I know I didn’t, when I was a boot). So perhaps you will permit an older comrade to lend you the words, since it often helps to have discrete words. Simply this: The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war’s desolation.
— Mar 15, 2018 03:57PM
Sara J. (kefuwa)
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We necessarily sift a great many pebbles, much sand, for each nugget — but the nuggets are the reward.
— Mar 15, 2018 03:56PM
Sara J. (kefuwa)
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I had an unsettling feeling that I had been completely mistaken as to the very nature of the world I was in, as if every part of it was something wildly different from what it appeared to be -- like discovering that your own mother isn't anyone you've ever seen before, but a stranger in a rubber mask.
— Mar 15, 2018 03:56PM
Sara J. (kefuwa)
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We supply the violence; other people—'older and wiser heads,' as they say—supply the control. Which is as it should be.
— Mar 15, 2018 03:56PM
Sara J. (kefuwa)
is on page 62 of 227
Not killing...but controlled and purposeful violence. But it's not your business or mine to decide the purpose of the control. It's never a soldier's business to decide when or where or how—or why—he fights; that belongs to the statesmen and the generals. The statesmen decide why and how much; the generals take it from there and tell us where and when and how.
— Mar 15, 2018 03:55PM
