re: #288 Obdicut

Here’s honesty about war:

War means that some 18 year old farm boy from Iowa pulls the trigger because he thinks he sees someone aiming an RPG at his friends, and it turns out to be a woman with a roll of cloth on her shoulder. He never gets over it.

This is why we should think long and hard before committing our troops to war. Not because they can die, though they can, and that is terrible too, but that is well known. Because they may be forced to kill, and a certain amount of that time they will kill, by mistake, civilians. And this will haunt them forever.

Well said.

“War is cruelty, you cannot refine it.” - General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1864