War
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Good Will.
The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.
