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Highly Recommended: Michele Catalano: The March to War and Back

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Romantic Heretic3/19/2013 4:46:13 pm PDT

re: #46 wrenchwench

There are many more lessons than just that one. Using body counts as a metric of success was unfathomably awful, and we still don’t know the truth of how awful. Think My Lai every day.

It’s a classic case of trying to make that most irrational of human activities, war, rational. Numbers don’t really tell much about violence or horror.