War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War is wretched beyond description and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. Whatever is won in war, it is loss the veteran remembers.

Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.

I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from.

Putin's Russia is our adversary and moral opposite. It is committed to the destruction of the post-war, rule-based world order built on American leadership and the primacy of our political and economic values.

Some cursed fraud Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown, And me with thee hath ruined.