A pre-emptive war in ‘defense’ of freedom would surely destroy freedom, because one simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.
J.William Fulbright
(The Arrogance of Power, 1966)
Photo: Javad Parsa/NTB. Oslo City Hall, February 24, 2022