I'm no pacifist. I know too many people with direct connections to the death camps of the Third Reich to think that no war can be justified. But there are also wars that are started for territorial gains, for personal or national ego, for the profit of those who will ensure their own sons and daughters are never sent to the front line. And it's too damned easy for those who start them to manipulate people.
I regret the fact that in another year or two the very last of those last few old men from the war to end wars will be gone. They are the living reminder that war is not glorious, but capable of being what one of the Making Light crowd described as "the very definition of a rotating clusterfuck".
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Date: 2006-11-12 04:57 pm (UTC)I regret the fact that in another year or two the very last of those last few old men from the war to end wars will be gone. They are the living reminder that war is not glorious, but capable of being what one of the Making Light crowd described as "the very definition of a rotating clusterfuck".