The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
We often fight wars with our young.
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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