Samuel Langhorne Clemens was a smart man, to be sure.
The man aka Mark Twain once wrote this:
“Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out … and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel. … And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for ‘the universal brotherhood of man’ — with his mouth.”
I wanted to share these words as the world recoils at the thought of war in Europe. The conflict is unfolding at this moment and I am left to wonder: What in the name of human decency can ever justify what is occurring?