Being shot while parachuting from an airplane, or having a bomb drop on your head

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38. It's the idiot's task to glorify war and pretend honor therein exists.

Von Clausewitz wrote "The only purpose of waging war is to prevent the opposition the ability to wage war."

In the mid to late 1700's, a bunch of dogmatic old men who yet believed war and honor could co-exist called the American insurgents "cowardly in form, hiding as do the hunted beaver. Let no honorable man be deceived, the tincture of cowardice lies upon them." (British Gen. William Howe, 5th Viscount of Howe, writing home from his expedition into the colonial insurgency in 1777).

There is no fair-play in a bloodied conflict. There is no code of honor when arms and legs do not know who they belong to. It's the height of an irrational mind to pretend that every government involved is not looking for a way to prevent the opposition from waging war, regardless of how, and regardless of the commercial branding of "cowardice" the weak-minded lay on it.

The weak-minded idiots may continue the pretense that war is filled with righteous honor and maintain their chewing-gum philosophies that Moscow is innocent of all but just actions and noble intent, but those who have lived through write differently...

"I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again."

Dead is dead. War is war. It's the idiot's task to glorify war and pretend honor therein exists.