Reader's View: War’s long-term human costs are too high

Reader's View: War’s long-term human costs are too high

American author John Steinbeck famously said, “All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.” He meant that war is not a sign of strength but a collapse of reason, empathy, and intelligence, representing a failure to resolve conflicts peacefully. When our leaders go to war, they talk about strategy, threats, resources, and political outcomes. The costs are reduced to dollars, numbers of strikes, installations destroyed, and, occasi…