Irresponsible Risk Takers in Command
by Rodrigue Tremblay / August 12th, 2008
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.There are people in charge who think that provocation and aggression can be acceptable government policy. The sudden conflict between the former Soviet province of Georgia and Russia in
War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
quotations from Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973)
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