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Editors | August 18, 2006

Eternal peace is a dream, and not even a beautiful one, and war is a part of God’s world order. In it are developed the noblest virtues of man — courage and abnegation, dutifulness and self-sacrifice at the risk of life. Without war the world would sink into materialism.

— Helmuth von Moltke (1800-1891), Prussian field marshal

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  1. Von Moltke was a very prominent member of the “JUNKER Class” which is to say that he was born and bred to the ruling elite of his time, THE MILITARY.
    History has since written many volumes as to the price the world has had to pay for his “thinking” which was in no way exclusively
    his. That the general essence of this mind set now is to be found in the American Military Establishment is indicative of man’s seeming inability to learn from the lessons of history, so often written in the blood of the innocent.

    oldgringo | Aug. 18, 2006 - 3:28 pm

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