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"Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?" (Albert Einstein & Bertrand Russell in 1955)Swagger:George,
Whilst I commend your tenacity, on an agenda I have mixed feeling on, although I believe he should be sanctioned for exposing his country, you're quoting a far-right newspaper that, along with its sister paper, The Observer - both belong to Guardian Media Group - that's objected to the coalition offensive in both Iraq and Afghanistan since the invasion of Afghanistan. This blatantly bias material you're using as your source material could be construed as you skewing the argument by citing sources that present the argument in your favour.
"War is necrophilia."
I have never seen war.
I'm relying on Chris Hedges for the observation above and those that follow:
"War perverts and destroys you.
"It pushes you closer and closer to your own annihilationspiritual, emotional and, finally, physical.
"It destroys the continuity of life, tearing apart all systems, economic, social, environmental and political, that sustain us as human beings.
"War is necrophilia.
"The essence of war is death.
"War is a state of almost pure sin with its goals of hatred and destruction.
"It is organized sadism. War fosters alienation and leads inevitably to nihilism.
"It is a turning away from the sanctity of life."
If Bradley Manning and the far right press can reveal war's true cost to those who blindly follow the flag they were born under, both deserve my full support and gratitude.
I hope you'll consider the "stark, dreadful and inescapable choice" that Einstein and Russell warned about 55 years ago:
"Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war."
Bitter MemoriesWar 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, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.Looks like Mill nailed your stupid coward moonbat ass to the wall.
--John Stuart Mill