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– PEACEFUL LIFE – outraged long ago by war; for war has never made careful selection of its victims, nor been restrained by their number. A war to resist Communism would not be a game to be played under arbitrary rules, with certain approved weapons of a carefully limited range of destruction; it would be a life-and-death struggle, in which the West would only be engaged because it believed that there were higher values at stake than human lives. Even the lives of its last man, woman and child. Even the lives of the enemy. 162
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– In Summary – C onsider the last war. Austria (to Servia): Stop it, or I’ll make you. Russia (to Austria): Stop it, or I’ll make you. Germany (to Russia): Stop it, or I’ll make you. France (to Germany): Stop it, or I’ll make you. Germany (to France): Stop saying stop it, or I’ll make you. England (to Germany): Stop it, or I’ll make you. This reads like something from a comic opera, but it is exactly what happened. 163

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– PEACEFUL LIFE –

outraged long ago by war; for war has never made careful selection of its victims, nor been restrained by their number. A war to resist Communism would not be a game to be played under arbitrary rules, with certain approved weapons of a carefully limited range of destruction; it would be a life-and-death struggle, in which the West would only be engaged because it believed that there were higher values at stake than human lives.

Even the lives of its last man, woman and child. Even the lives of the enemy.

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