Now that the Republicans have chosen Senator McCain of Arizona as their standard-bearer for the fall Presidential contest in the U.S., and since Senator McCain is, among other things, the candidate of perpetual war, it seems fitting to remember this fine short piece by Mark Twain, which a reader has sent today.
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