From Andrew Bacevich’s introduction to “The Irony of American History“, by pastor, teacher, theologian and author Reinhold Niebuhr which I started reading yesterday. Niebuhr writes the following concerning preventive war,
“The idea of preventive war sometimes tempts minds, whose primary preoccupation is the military defense of a nation and who thinks it might be prudent to pick the most propitious moment for the start of what they regard as inevitable hostilities. But the rest of us must resist such ideas with every moral resource.”
“Nothing in history is inevitable including the probable. So long as war has not broken out, we still have the possibility of avoiding it. Those who think that there is little difference between a cold and a hot war are either knaves or fools.”
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