this one via The Gutless Pacifist listed under his LeftBar Articles List

Good stuff. 

How hard is it to “imagine” how opposed the overwhelming majority of people in this country would be to war if it were required to be fought on OUR soil,  and kill OUR CIVILIANS,  and wreck OUR “way of life” for the sake of some imagined retributive justice.  Who really thinks that any of this will “teach them Arabs that we won’t stand for it”.  Yeah,  I’m sure that’s what they’re thinking.

Berry offers this, among other things:  Recent American wars, having been both “foreign” and “limited,” have been fought under the assumption that little or no personal sacrifice is required. In “foreign” wars, we do not directly experience the damage that we inflict upon the enemy.

Along the same theme: Here is the other question that I have been leading toward, one that the predicament of modern warfare forces upon us: How many deaths of other people’s children by bombing or starvation are we willing to accept in order that we may be free, affluent, and (supposedly) at peace? To that question I answer: None. Please, no children. Don’t kill any children for my benefit.

Amen, Wendell