re: #304 GeneJockey

It just seemed, reading what people in that era were thinking, as if it was viewed as inevitable, as if war had become an entity all its own, and not ‘a continuation of policy by other means’. I could never find a policy goal that anyone felt was important enough to go to war over, yet everyone seemed convinced that there WOULD BE a war, and by preparing for it, and expecting it, they brought it about.

Exactomundo.