Sparks: Forever at war? US, Iran trade blows as Israel pushes deeper into Lebanon

The prince who believes a short war will secure his state forgets that the conquered always remember the boot.

How long will you continue to shatter the very peace you profess to defend with these endless, undeclared campaigns?

That same merchant who demands open markets at home pays the artilleryman to close them abroad.

War is the father of all, and this perpetual fathering leaves no son to inherit the land.

To exhaust one's treasury and one's people in a campaign without a decisive objective is the supreme art of failure.

A general in an air-conditioned room marks a line on a map, and a thousand men who have never met him dig graves in the dirt.

The entire system is designed to dissipate its energy in brilliant, wasteful sparks rather than transmit power efficiently.

Count the violations, note the dates, and the pattern reveals a policy masquerading as a series of accidents.

They build monuments to peace with one hand and sign the arms contracts with the other.

A nation that habituates itself to the shrug at violence has already lost its moral constitution.

An infinite universe contains an infinite number of such conflicts, each believing itself the center of all creation.

From my vantage, I note the precise number of olive trees shattered between the new trench and the old one.

My catalogue of these engagements lists each violation by timestamp and ordnance type, yet the cause remains unobserved.