“Nations and groups of nations act through their armed forces, which can only act with the maximum of imprecision, killing, maiming, starving and ruining millions of human beings, the overwhelming majority of whom have committed no crime of any sort.”
(Quote found on p. 75 of Nicholson Baker’s eccentric — but exceedingly compelling — account of the roots of World War II, Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization)
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