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Warfare Shakespeare

• Season 6 • Episode 158

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There are several wars happening in the world now. We don't think all of them are justified. In this episode, we discuss the wars in the canon and whether or not we think those were fair - or just plain idiotic. 

As Shakespeare said:

Now, for our consciences, the arms are fair                                                               When the intent of bearing them is just. 

                                   - Hotspur, Henry IV Part 1, Act 5, Scene 2

Or

But if the cause be not good, the King
 himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all
 those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in a
 battle, shall join together at the latter day, and cry
 all “We died at such a place,” some swearing, some
 crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left
 poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe,
 some upon their children rawly left. I am afeard
 there are few die well that die in a battle, for how
 can they charitably dispose of anything when blood
 is their argument? 

                                  - Williams, Henry V, Act 4, Scene 1                                                          


Or, as Edwin Starr said in his famous song in 1970:

War, huh, yeah
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, uhh
War, huh, yeah
What is it good for?



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