Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.
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The funny thing about war is that people feel you need to be morally outraged. I feel morally outraged about it, and I've been doing it for long enough to feel morally outraged, because I have been in massacre scenes in West Africa, and I've been doing this for a long time now.
Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.
When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.
I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.
Morality is contraband in war.
What is more immoral than war?
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
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