"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against
the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better,
but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse
than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking
primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions,
to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley
"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination.
All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.
"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"
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5 medical packages dropped versus 6 bombs. I wonder if the lives destroyed versus lives saved figures are so flattering?
Good point. The terrible “creative destruction” ratio seems decidedly more on the side of guns than butter, doesn’t it? The floundering reconstruction efforts that are feeding profit to US companies are proof of that.