Quote of the Day (Tim O'Brien, on Going to War ‘Without Knowing Why’)

“It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.”— Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried (1990)