"War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."

The above is from Thomas Mann, one of my favorite authors, quoted in this excellent write up by RJ Eskow from Huffington Post about the "Dark Milestone" we've just faced:

While President Bush and other Republican politicians spent the day exploiting the memory of those we lost five years ago, the nation overlooked a grim milestone: More Americans have now died in Iraq than died on 9/11. Iraq didn't attack us on that day, and our misguided policy there has now taken more American lives than Al Qaeda.

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