War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
Again, although I'm not a particularly religious person, I go back to the religious left that I come out of: There are moral imperatives to fight back. As Daniel Berrigan says, "We're called to do the good. " And then we have to let it go. It's not our job to know where the good goes.