A just war is in the long run far better for a nation’s soul than the most prosperous peace obtained by acquiescence in wrong or injustice.

- Theodore Roosevelt

But sometimes it’s not so much better for the poor slobs who get sent over the trenches.  This quote is in the same category as Obama’s Nobel speech: perhaps without context it is true that yes, there are times where a just war would be superior to some inequitable peace, but I’m not sure humanity has ever constructed a real scenario where this is true.

And, when you look at what Teddy considered to be a “just war,” it also makes you wonder.