Perpetuating the Afghanistan Folly

[raven mad]

7. I've always thought this was one of the best anti-war books ever.

Last chapter of the first half.

“You can always hear the people who are willing to sacrifice somebody else's life. They're plenty loud and they talk all the time. You can find them in churches and schools and newspapers and legislatures and congress. That's their business. They sound wonderful. Death before dishonor. This ground sanctified by blood. These men who died so gloriously. They shall not have died in vain. Our noble dead.”

― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun