Howard Zen

In A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, Howard Zen writes: 

"I can accept that there may be rare situations where a small act of force might be used to halt a genocidal situation - Darfur and Rwanda are examples. But war, defined as the massive and indiscriminate use of force cannot be accepted, once you understand its human consequences. 

Campaigns to rid the earth of landmines, napalm, white phosphorus, and depleted uranium, are important in themselves, as the reduction of symptoms is to anyone suffering from a deadly illness. But those campaigns must be accompanied by the understanding that the illness itself must be eliminated. 

Albert Einstein horrified by the first World War, said: 'War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.' "