As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.
East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century.
In America, the top 1 percent led the country into war and economic devastation, leaving the less fortunate to fight for one and pay for both.
When you go to war, both sides lose totally.
War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.
If you look at casualties, you find countries that had much higher loss rates per capita than the US. Denmark comes to mind, the United Kingdom, they have suffered heavy losses at various points, the Germans as well.
Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.