Most air crew take for granted the spurious moral absolution conferred upon those who escape eye contact with the people whom they kill.
Max Hastings (b. 1945) British journalist and military historian
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy (2018)
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Are we like the God of the Old Testament that we can decide, in Washington, D.C., what cities, what towns, what hamlets in Vietnam are going to be destroyed? … Do we have to accept that? … I do not think we have to. I think we can do something about it.
Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-1968) American politician
Speech, US Senate (Mar 1968)
Frequently cited as his last Senate speech about the Vietnam War.
It’s hard to convince people you are bombing that you’re doing it for their own good.
Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (2001-12), “What Osama Bin Wants,” The Progressive, Vol. 65, No. 12
(Source)
The quote was included in The Progressive's memorial article for her.
