Re: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad- محمود احمدینژاد
I do think she meant it literally.
Retribution. As if killing more people can undo the damage caused. As if the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki undid pearl harbor. As if anything after the fact suddenly makes it ok. The old "Eye for an eye" except here we find ourselves with "country for a country."
As one of my favorite quotes goes, bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity.
There is no victory in war. Only death. Whoever dies the least wins. But winning isn't victory. Victory is avoiding war in the first place.
We've been killing and killing and killing some more for thousands of years now to promote "peace." Fat lot of good that's done for us.