People have a very political way of looking at war, and that's understandable.
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War is in the eyes.
When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.
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.
War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
War can be fun for certain people. It's a magnet for sadists, losers, and angry dreamers.
To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers - struggle more than the rest of us to make sense of the reality of war.
So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.
First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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