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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat is the first casualty of war??
I think I read it somewhere but I can't recall off the top of my head what it is?
Maybe someone can help? It's right on the tip of my tongue...
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What is the first casualty of war?? (Original Post)
kentuck
Aug 2013
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nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)1. Truth
Autumn
(45,079 posts)2. Truth.
Carolina
(6,960 posts)3. Truth
MisterP
(23,730 posts)4. the People's View into things?
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)5. "A lie can get halfway around the world before the Truth can get its pants on"
- Winston Churchill
FLyellowdog
(4,276 posts)6. Peace?
rug
(82,333 posts)7. Samuel Johnson put it this way:
"Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages."
Throd
(7,208 posts)8. Whatever it is that makes humanity beautiful.