You’re so vain, I bet you think this post is about you…
Here is a great message: “Every war has two losers“. It was originally written by William Stafford.
“Every War Has Two Losers” is also the title of a 32-minute documentary film about the views of poet + conscientious objector William Stafford (1914-1993), who refused to fight, even in World War Two …
The documentary is based on a book of the same title, “Every War Has Two Losers“, a compilation of William Stafford “journal entries that his son put together about his thoughts on war and reconciliation”, said one reviewer, here.
In the documentary, and in its trailer, posted on Youtube, W.S. Merwin, 82 years old, just named by the U.S. Congress as America’s poet laureate, says: “When its an ‘enemy’ it’s not a person anymore, it’s a target”.
The trailer, via Avner Cohen on Facebook (to whom I send thanks), is posted on Youtube: