A frequent argument supporting women in combat is the notion that women can die just as easily as men. Well, this isn't true. In fact, women can die much more easily than men.
If, for any reason at all, they do not want you in combat, you are lucky.
If combat doesn't kill you on the outside, it will kill you on the inside.
You can take the soldier out of the combat, but you can't take the combat out of the soldier.
There will always be war.
War, n.: The method by which old people determine who has the upper hand in a dispute by forcing their young men to murder one another.
They say we fight wars so our children won't have to. But history tells us otherwise. We fight wars so our children will have something to fight for.
War changes people. But those people die, and the ones who follow are unaffected.
Very soon the population will be so large that whoever stands up before a crowd as says, "Follow me in the name of God," will gain enough power to make war on the world.
Never forget that wars are started by one insane man, and stopped by thousands, sometimes millions of men fighting to their deaths for what is right.
It is very sad, and frightening, that as our species reflects upon the mythical history of man's inhumanity to man it neglects the fact that most of the men were fighting to save us.
Most of those terrible bombs are protecting you and everything you believe in.
Weapons win battles, reason wins wars.
The winners get to be the good guys.
What will the last weapon be?
To gain peace we must conquer ignorance.
Fear, hatred, oppression, madness, and death are the ransom for peace.
The better something is, the more difficult it is to acquire, which is why we will probably never achieve peace.
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