"War Is Stupid And People Are Stupid"
Jul. 29th, 2006 02:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloWas there ever a war that wasn't popular- at least in its early stages?
The people of Israel are backing their government and the people of Lebanon are backing Hezbollah.
When war breaks out, judgement, principle, commonsense dissolve into patriotic fervour.
We all hate war, don't we? And yet...and yet...and yet....
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Date: 2006-07-31 08:20 pm (UTC)He had such a gentle, wise old face.
And I liked it that he was also a palaeontolgist.