Unless the Visigoths are knocking at your gate and darkness threatens to consume the civilized world, wars are generally a mistakea confession of a governments failure to find some other way of settling disputes short of sending out 19-year-olds with rifles to kill other 19-year-olds. And even the most righteous of wars throughout history are […]
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