Agressive War Is The Great Crime

*In Cuba at the Finca Vigia when WWII ends with the dropping of the atomic bombs: “We have waged war in the most ferocious and ruthless way that it has ever been waged. We waged it against fierce and ruthless enemies that it was necessary to destroy. Now we have destroyed one of our enemies and forced the capitulation of the other. For the moment we are the strongest power in the world. It is very important that we do not become the most hated…

…We need to study and understand certain basic problems of our world as they were before Hiroshima to be able to continue, intelligently, to discover how some of them have changed and how they can be settled justly now that a new weapon has become a property of part of the world. We must study them more carefully than ever now and remember that no weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one…

…An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggression at the earliest moment, is the necessary counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and the dead.”-Treasury for the Free World.