He concedes that a case could be made against the war on the grounds of legality, the human cost, unforeseen consequences and so forth.

他承认，要反战可以有种种名头，例如不合法，耗费人力，后果难测等等。

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"We had a much different dynamic of what was going on inside of Vietnam insofar as what was the cost, the human cost of the war."

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Erik Leaver of the Institute of Policy Studies says one big difference is that the strongest opposition about Afghanistan may form over the financial cost of the war rather than the human one.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Will you overturn that policy so the American people can see the full human cost of war?

WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Press Conference

This beautifully written book is powerfully evocative of the human cost of war and the longing for love that, despite the shooting and shelling, never fades.

ECONOMIST: New Arab fiction

The more westerners denounced the human cost of the war in Chechnya (hundreds of thousands of refugees, thousands of civilian deaths), the more ruthlessly the Yeltsin administration seemed to pursue it.

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