LUCKY WAR LESSONS
Newsweek shows three American Sodiers on their knees, praying. The caption reads, “U.S. troops pray before the ground war.” Assuredly, their prayers were answered. We welcome them home! The conclusion of the author – who retired from the U.S. army in l971 was as follows: “I hope this war is the last high-intensity war I see in my lifetime. I oppose war because I know the consequences: there are no winners. This is even more clear now that the destructive capability of weaponry is so total and weapons are so precise. War is no longer a group of merry men meeting on top of a sunny hill, such as at Hasting in 1066, and swinging axes at each other before retiring to the pub for a few glasses of ale. The bottom line: we have to fight. It is ironic that this sad lesson had to be relearned in the land of the Tigris and Euphrates, the cradle of civilization.: Newsweek,…
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