The military mind is persistent. You can count on the generals to figure it out. The only trouble is that they’re always fighting the last war. In this case, they didn’t get that right, either. Vietnam was another wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time against the wrong country.
Mahatma Gandhi once said, "There is no path to peace — peace is the path." No matter what George Bush says, war is not peace. At any rate, war has become too expensive to be useful. Forget about the endless loss of lives, the countless wounded, and the devastation that war brings. War is a lose-lose game for all because there are no winners — just losers.
Just think how much better off Iraq would be today if Bush had never been born. How much better off would we be in the United States if he had never been born? How long will it take before people realize we just can’t war anymore?
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