The Costs of War, Collective Amnesia and Learning From Experience

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6. We've glorified war for too long

We get young people to go off and fight wars by glorifying war to begin with. We place the warriors on pedestals. We write songs and mythologize the dead. We make the movies, and equate the dead to saints. We don't talk much about the pain, the senselessness, the blood, or the suffering of the innocent. We talk about "blood and treasure" but don't speak much about the cost to those caught in our wars who didn't have a choice.

War is suppose to be what you do after all the chances to do the right thing have passed us by. All this drum beating for war amongst the political right is obscene.