“During the experience of years spent in the debris of modern war, I became aware of a dread reality the fact that modern war does not merely interrupt, but reverses every work of mercy. Each side in war shares in this reversal, and one side cannot refuse to practice the reversal without losing the war. The question of just and unjust is irrelevant, since wars are fought for victory.”

– Eileen Egan, co-founder of Pax Christi USA, in Peace Be With You (Orbis Books, 1999), 138.