how to abolish war   (quote)

Killing is not as physical as it once was. It's time for young, hopeful people to be relieved of fighting duties. War should be fought by the middle-aged men who are the ones who decide that war should be fought anyway. We don't have our whole lives in front of us. We're already staring down the barrel of heart disease and SEC investigations.
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Maybe we're coming to the end of the long, dark modern age. Slaughters of unnumbered human beings continue, but not among people [like Japanese Lieutenant Colonel Takeichi Nishi] who knew Spencer Tracy. Warfare persists, but the scale of battle is returning to something that Hector and Ajax would recognize. Maybe each Jessica Lynch will become a legend. Maybe everybody's death will matter.

 -P.J. O'Rourke, Sulfur Island