But it also helps make the world a more dangerous place by obscuring the real reasons for war, and by allowing peoples around the world to justify violence and conflict not as a means to an end, but rather as a holy mission of liberation, freedom, and the eradication of tyranny. Until political leaders reject the rhetoric of evil as a justification for war, war itself is unlikely to disappear.
这样的巧言令色显然非常有效。它在世界各国都具有普遍性。但它也掩盖了战争的真正理由，让世界各国民众找到不将暴力和冲突视作达到目的的一种手段，而将其视为神圣的解放、自由和消灭暴政目标的借口。除非政治领袖拒绝以罪恶的花言巧语为由发动战争，否则战争本身不太可能消除。