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Nov. 27th, 2015 08:09 amDouglas Adams had this to say about war:
Three stages in the history of warfare:
RETRIBUTION: I'm going to kill you because you killed my brother.
ANTICIPATION: I'm going to kill you because I killed your brother.
DIPLOMACY: I'm going to kill my brother and then kill you, on the pretext that your brother did it.
(The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
If he'd been alive today, he might have added another one.
TERRORISM: My brother will martyr himself killing your sister, so that you will martyr his family, so that my cousins will kill you and I'll run away laughing.
Three stages in the history of warfare:
RETRIBUTION: I'm going to kill you because you killed my brother.
ANTICIPATION: I'm going to kill you because I killed your brother.
DIPLOMACY: I'm going to kill my brother and then kill you, on the pretext that your brother did it.
(The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
If he'd been alive today, he might have added another one.
TERRORISM: My brother will martyr himself killing your sister, so that you will martyr his family, so that my cousins will kill you and I'll run away laughing.
