Whenever we are engaged in a conflict, or whenever we are contemplating a conflict which has the potential that this conflict has, we need to realize that it may well be a situation, no matter what the outcome, in which there are no winners and losers but rather a situation in which everybody loses when we choose war as an alternative to diplomacy.
Diplomacy is not an alternative to war.
( z1 alternative :polarity - :domain ( z2 diplomacy ) :prep-to ( z3 war ) )