Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.