An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the wo…

Ernest Hemingway
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An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead. ✨ Treasury of the Free World. Book by Ben Raeburn. Introduction to the book, 1946.
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