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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 144 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Iran is correct.

Israel is destabilizing the region further with this shit.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 63 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We hear about Israel’s right to protect itself so often we almost forget that everyone has it.

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Everyone, except Palestine and Lebanon

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

I mean right doesn't equate to ability...

[–] 4lan@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can we just let the leaders duke it out? 1 on 1 knife fights. Leave the people out of this shit

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If only.

[T]he ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out among themselves. Whoever survives, his country wins. That would be much simpler and more just than this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting.

  • All Quiet on the Western Front, written by a WW1 veteran
[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you just have quotes like this in a rolodex?

I loved the book, but cannot pull quotes for the life of me.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Nah, just good at vaguely remembering quotes and then googling things like "All Quiet On The Western Front generals quarrel quote"

[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Eye for an eye for an eye for an eye for an eye...

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 6 points 9 months ago

Except for the last guy who will still have one eye. How's the blind guy gonna take the eye of the guy with one eye left? All that guy had to do is run away and hide behind a bush. Gandhi was wrong.

[–] Brown_dude69@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 7 points 9 months ago

So great that there will not be a need for another. (this time for sure)

[–] Brown_dude69@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

How the hell a war is to end war.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

Can’t have wars when we’re all dying of nuclear fallout and/or nuclear explosion

[–] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

"The war to end war" (also "The war to end all wars";[1] originally from the 1914 book The War That Will End War by H. G. Wells) is a term for the First World War of 1914–1918. Originally an idealistic slogan, it is now mainly used sardonically,[2] since not only was the First World War not history's final war, but its aftermath also indirectly contributed to the outbreak of the even more devastating Second World War.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_war_to_end_war

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn Would scarcely know that we were gone.