Posts tagged war

Aug 19

“Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.” Simone Weil, “The Iliad” or “The Poem of Force” (1940), quoted in Chris Hedges, War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning (New York: Anchor Books, 2002), 21.

May 16

“How much potential harm justifies suppressing facts, whether from My Lai or Iraq, that might help the public judge the way a war is waged in its name?” Adam Liptak, “Images, the Law and War,” The New York Times, 16 May 2009.

Feb 9

“It is one thing to say that a certain type of fight is more or less likely; it is quite another to say it is certain to be one or the other. In war, the only thing certain is uncertainty… We had better damn well have the capability to fight the guerrilla and the nation-state, regardless of which of these is more or less likely.” Marine Major General Larry Taylor, quoted in Tom Ricks’s Inbox, The Washington Post, Feb. 1, 2009, p. B2.

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