from Camus

I was just sitting down to read a bit before heading to bed. I am still working on Camus' writing for Combat. It is taking me a while, but it isn't really a novel you sit and read, rather it is a series of editorials that you read in small quantities. With this war in Iraq going on, his comments on what is justifiable in war, taken in context, reveal much of what seems to be wrong right now. Today's interesting note, from the 2nd paragraph of the editorial dated 14 November, 1944: "Modern warfare is so lethal that no country, no matter how numerous its population, can allow itself to go to war half prepared." If this was so sixty years ago, has anything changed to make it untrue? If so, perhaps our Executive Branch would care to enlighten us.