“Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.”

“What I could not support was "a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics".”

“War is not glorious. War is hell. The only reason for fighting it is toachieve some good end that cannot be achieved by any other means.”

“Some people refer to a ‘just war’ or a ‘war of necessity’ andothers posit that it is simply an illusion to dignify war, no matterthe circumstance. Having said that, the necessity or otherwise ofwar can be seen in the Igbo of Nigeria concept of ‘akwa aja ahụọgụ’. A man is thus bound to defend his ‘ama’ or territory andhis manhood against any intruder, oppressor or aggressor or beregarded as a ‘woman’ by his people.”

“There is no such thing as a good war and there is no such thing as a justified war but there is a war of necessity and we have to fight it if we want to assure our way of life even if it’s the wrong one.”

“Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.”