Iraq:} Mid~Tour

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral andpatriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.— John Stuart Mill (1868)


We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready
in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
— George Orwell