10.5 war  

by the way, have i mentioned this other thing? this war somebody wants?

i think it is a bad idea. a very very bad idea.

should i tell you why it is so bad? i don't think so.

you can read the papers.

you can ferret out the facts. you can weigh the probabilities.

you can hear the news and the commentators and the congress, our elected representatives, who are also politicians. you can listen. and think for yourself.

most of them will eventually say that this war is not great but it's not so bad either.

a few of them will never say it. i don't think i will ever say it.

i would feel silly to sit here and type words that added up to nothing more than the idea that war is bad.

there are always reasons for war. they are almost never very good reasons. and the reasons given are never quite the actual reasons. leave that to the historians.

in your guts you want the war or you do not.

in your guts, when you hear that the bombs are falling and the troops advancing, you will sing out or you will weep. and you will have your reasons.

leave it at that.

but some of us are weeping almost every day, aren't we?

what can we do?

it is possible - even likely - that the war (this very bad war) is already underway.

moon dust


Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Martha Gellhorn

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