"All of us have heard this term 'preventive war' since the earliest days of Hitler......A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transoprtation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war, that is war. I don't believe there is such a thing as preventive war; and frankly I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing."
Dwight Eisenhower
