Originally Posted by
kanman
Yes, our policy was pretty crap. We wanted to war, but if we were to net, we would at least get some advantage and flex our muscles a bit. When both NS and Slob leaders both outright rejected it, both nations should have went to full war alert. You shouldn't quit from a war everyone could see from a mile away and especially since NS and Slob should have given us a pretty even fight.
I'm still alive but the amount of time we had to prepare wasn't much at all. Plus with you guys having stockers who could go pure ships, none of us could have dealt with that. I had a balanced state but regardless I would have died had I been attacked first or attacked when I wasn't on....
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.