Battle lines
For antiwar gravitas on Memorial Day weekend, the generals say it as well as the cartoonists:
“What a cruel thing is war ... to fill our hearts with hatred ... to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.” -- Robert E. Lee
“The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.” -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
“War is fear cloaked in courage.” -- William Westmoreland
“Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him.” -- Sherman Potter, “MASH”
(OK, Potter was a fictitious colonel, but, like cartoonists, he sometimes added dark laughter to slaughter.)
-- Joel Pett
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