November 18, 2004
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Shoot the Messenger?
Society? Politics? Philosophy? I dunno…If you don’t want to subject yourself to “leftist spin”, you can just go straight to the Free Republic site and assess it for yourself.
I’m not even sure what to say about this…
This is the truth of war. If people don’t know what war is, if they only see reports regarding the glamour and nobility of it, if people don’t understand that horrors are unavoidable, then the only reason to oppose war is that because soldiers might die.
When your military claims a kill ration of 1:100 to 1:1000 and all the soldiers are volunteer, the deaths of those soldiers seems rare enough and noble enough that it doesn’t weigh that heavily against the reasons put forth to fight the war.
