Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
--Czechoslovak Army saying

War & Peace >Troops 'told of March 17 invasion'
Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that ... war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.
-- Mark Twain
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Desert Storm

Americans entered the Clinton administration with a lot of hope about an outside world where so many positives had emerged with the end of the Cold War. The United States was the sole military superpower; what could go wrong?
· Super Power [NWC]