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Determinant Not Deterrent

Those who have gone through the terror and tragedy of a war would testify its meaninglessness. Even if we are living in the safest corner of the world, a war is not far from us. However, humane and civilised the community we are living in, it does not take much time and effort to slip ourselves into a full-fledged war, either domestic or international. Wars are not just stories of the past, nor are they exclusive political games of the present; they actually are the determinants of our fate, and not the deterrent of any imminent evil. Ameer Hassan


I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Futility of Wars

"How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is."
— Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front)


'Arms and the boy' by Owen
Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade
How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood;
Blue with all malice, like a madman's flash;
And thinly drawn with famishing for flesh.

Lend him to stroke these blind, blunt bullet-heads
Which long to muzzle in the hearts of lads.
Or give him cartridges of fine zinc teeth,
Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death.