re: #147 Feline Fearless Leader

I’ve seen too many 30s, 40s, and 50s war movies and other literature where killing the “other” was extolled. So I am not surprised at the lack of empathy.

I think then that hits on why All Quiet on the Western Front is such a great war novel and later movie because really by the end of reading that, I had forgotten that the protagonist and his comrades were part of a country who we were at war with. But I too remember moments like this in the lead up to Iraq where we’d be debating the issue in class and people would actually suggest nuking Iraq.