War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed t…

Susan Sontag
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War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view 'realistically'; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent – war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive. ✨ Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors.
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