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Our account of the war, as a war of communion, to the very point in which we began to throw out lures, oglings, and glances for peace, was a war of disaster, and of little else.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke critiques the war's trajectory, suggesting it has been marked by disaster rather than success.
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