War Is A Lot Of Things And

Each Javelin Round Costs $80,000, And The Idea That It's Fired By A Guy Who Doesn't Make That In A Year At A Guy Who Doesn't Make That In A Lifetime Is Somehow So Outrageous It Almost Makes The War Seem Winnable.

When You're Scared, You're Still Hanging On To Life. When You're Ready To Die, You Let It Go. A Sort Of Emptying Out Occurs, A Giving Up On The World That Seems Oddly Familiar Even If You've Never Done It Before.

The Most Profound Question Is, "what Would I Risk Dying For?" The Natural Answer Is "for My Family." But For Most Of History, We Didn't Live In Families. We Lived In Small Communities That Gave Us Our Sense Of Safety And Place In The World, So The Natural Answer Would Be "for My People." The Blessing And The Tragedy Of Modern Life Is That We Don't Need Our Community To Survive Anymore. When We Lose That Idea, We Lose A Sense Of Who We Are.

I'm A Good Liberal, And I Grew Up In A Very Liberal Family And Had Very Strongly Held Beliefs.

No Matter How Many People You Kill, Using A Machine Gun In Battle Is Not A War Crime Because It Does Not Cause Unnecessary Suffering; It Simply Performs Its Job Horrifyingly Well.