Alexander Cockburn Quote

A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.


New Statesman and Society (8 February 1991).


A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every...

A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every...

A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every...

A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every...