No one man nor group of men incapable of fighting or exempt
from fighting should in any way be given the power, no
matter how gradually it is given them, to put this country
or any country into war.
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of
the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary
prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the
refuge of political and economic opportunists.
-- Ernest Hemingway from "Notes on the Next War"
in American Points of View 1936