M’s Reviews > The Bomb > Status Update

“We can reject the belief that the lives of others are worth less than the lives of Americans, that a Japanese child, or an Iraqi child, or an Afghan child is worth less than an American child. We can refuse to accept that idea as the universal justification for war … we should know by now, even though we are slow learners, that the ugliness of the means is always certain, the goodness of the end uncertain.”