When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.
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People have a very political way of looking at war, and that's understandable.
War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.
Government is waging war against the people.
War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture.
Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.'
So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.
Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.
Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.
Politicians do not enter into wars lightly. It is usually the military themselves who are keener to become involved.
When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.
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