I have begun reading William Bennett's book, Why We Fight Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism. In it he quotes John Stuart Mill:
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of a moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight-nothing he cares about more than his own safety-is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
More later on the issues raised in Bennett's book first published in 2002. Suffice to say I am an admirer of Bennett because he has consistently exposed and argued against the theories, politics and philosophy of the 'peace party,' that umbrella of loosely linked advocates of a variety of causes from PETA to the anti-globalization, no-growth groups.
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