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If war dead could speak
by Jerry Tetalman 1054 words If those killed in war could speak, this is what I imagine they would say. They would claim that war is humanity’s biggest moral failure and that war is the real enemy. They might ask, “Are we savage animals or are we civilized human beings?” and “When will war be outlawed?” …
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Trumptown—a planetary Jonestown
by Tom H. Hastings 491 words In 1978 in Guyana some 918 people—one-third of them children—were poisoned or shot dead in a religious sect community, Jonestown. Until 9.11.2001 it was the largest mass murder of civilians in US history. Of course, both those terrible events would pale alongside the civilian death count of any nuclear war,…
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A lesson not learned
by Bruce Altschuler 880 words It is often said that generals are ready to fight the last war. In other words, after every war, the military evaluates the results in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes, but the next war always presents different conditions and problems, making many of these lessons less relevant. Germany…