a brief word from a soldier-turned-politician

The last "military man" who was President was Dwight David Eisenhower. I'd like to share with those of you, who think war is such a cool thing, who think that we are doing right by flexing our muscles in direct conflict with both the teachings of the American Founding Fathers and the primary tenets of Christianity, the word he said:

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." - from a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1963

Don't confuse violence with virtue. It isn't.
And being proud of our inability to stand for the principles we we claim to stand for is craven.