“Why can’t we change mankind and eliminate the need for conflict yet still remain different and flexible. It would only require tolerance.”
“Never happen.”
“Why?”
“You’d have ta change it all—every last man, woman and child—if you wanted ta break the cycle of peace-war-peace-war. You’d have ta build a new base. If you can’t change the system that produces war there’s one thing you best mothafuckin do—you better win them fuckin wars.”
“Amen,” Brooks said.
Egan began rising. “We gotta get to our AO,” he said to Brooks. “I gotta find what happened to the MA.”
“Wait a minute,” Brooks said. “I want to ask you just ah … about something else.”
“Yeah.”
“I want to switch to personal conflict. Like,” Brooks hesitated then nearly blurted it out loud instead of whispering it in his field voice
