Wednesday, September 1, 2021

The winner is war itself

 


“There is one winner, only one winner, in war. The winner is war itself. Not truth, not justice, not liberty, not morality. These are the vanquished.”

-Thomas Merton

HT: Robert Ellsberg 

1 comment:

  1. I read an interview with a combat veteran of the Gulf War who witnessed and participated in unimaginable killing. One day after a successful battle they began joyriding in the enemy's tanks. He discovered they were manufactured in the U.S. and sold to the enemy. He is very patriotic - very promilitary and very antiwar - the war he says, is a racket. I wonder how he reconciles?

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