Either/Or War

Callimachus at 'Done With Mirrors' writes about a discussion he had with a co-worker on the use of torture now compared to WWII, and he opines:

Honestly, just go and be a pacifist. It's an honest profession. You can fight this kind of war or you can fight that kind of war, but you can't have a war that doesn't force you into awful dilemmas and choices between one kind of immoral act or another that will haunt your national conscience.

Do be sure to read the comments, too, when you go and read the whole thing.