To keep the day from being abstract I must put pictures of strangers in front of me and exercise my imagination: what if that were me, or my son?
I hope some such image as this is on the President's office wall. All too often there's no choice but war, but I pray that we never go into war just because some politician feels insulted. Nor fail to when we ought just because some politician fears not getting reelected. There's a truly bloody price for mistakes--the price for success is already high enough.
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Lewis said that war always costs twice as much and accomplishes half as much as promised.
I think that is wildly optimistic. 10x and 0.1x might be closer. And yet even at that, sometimes necessary.
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