War and Peace

We call barbarians people living on the other side of the border. We call civilised people living on this side of the border.

We civilised, living on this side of the border, are not ashamed to arm ourselves to the teeth so as to protect ourselves against the barbarians living on the other side.

And when the barbarians born on the other side of the border attack us, we do not hesitate to kill them before we have tried to civilise them.

So we civilised exterminate barbarians without civilising them and we persist in calling ourselves civilised.