War is hell now war was hell then

Herodotus meets Ellroy: "Both sides continue to test the waters. Battles are costly. Every time a blade does its appointed work, a sorry subject falls. Such sorry subjects pile up on both sides. Pteria is filled with nameless corpses, Cyrus and Croesus called it even and retired with boasts of victory. The dead were soon eaten. Their bones dried by the sun."

We are gradually learning to dislike it. This century we may simply abolish it.

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