One of the reasons war should be the very last resort, used only in extremes, is, as illustrated above and in the daily briefs from Washington currently, that people do such insane things when they get to use it as a justification. On the other hand, it gets folks to reveal their own true colors. The pretense of civilization falls away readily where it is only skin deep, revealing the bandersnatch, the Neanderthal, and the barbarian lurking within and begging for a chance to come out and wreak havoc against better humans than he.
Thus, Bush et al.


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