One: The means of waging war
have become so horrendous
Two: The horrors of the means
are certain, the achievement of the ends always uncertain.
Three: When you bomb a country
ruled by a tyrant, you kill the victims of the tyrant.
Four: War poisons the soul
of everyone who engages in it, so that the most ordinary of people
become capable of terrible acts.
Five:Since the ratio of civilian
deaths to military deaths in war has risen sharply
and since a significant percentage of these civilians
are children, then war is inevitably a war against children.
Six: We cannot claim that
there is a moral distinction between a government which bombs
and kills innocent people and a terrorist organization which
does the same.
Seven: War, and the bombing
that accompanies war, are the ultimate terrorism, for governments
can command means of destruction on a far greater scale than
any terrorist group.
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