"A museum devoted to the history of America’s wars that included the vicious war the United States fought against guerillas in the Philippines from 1899 to 1902 (expertly excoriated by Mark Twain), and that fairly presented the arguments for and against using the atomic bomb in 1945 on the Japanese cities, with photographic evidence that showed what those weapons did, would be regarded—now more than ever—as a most unpatriotic endeavor."
— Susan Sontag, arguing for a museum of America’s wars (probably primarily through war photography), in Regarding the Pain of Others, page 94.
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