"War Is Stupid And People Are Stupid"

[poliphilo]

Was there ever a war that wasn't popular- at least in its early stages?

The people of Israel are backing their government and the people of Lebanon are backing Hezbollah. 

When war breaks out, judgement, principle, commonsense dissolve into patriotic fervour. 

We all hate war, don't we? And yet...and yet...and yet....

Comments

[baritonejeff.livejournal.com]

I believe there is a component in most of us that bears a primal response to larger-than-everyday-life notions. War certainly falls into that category. It carries with it that seemingly irresistible power to make the mundane seem unimportant.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Here in Britain we still live in the faint afterglow of WWII. Whenever we want to feel good about ouselves we dig into the toybox of the national psyche and fish out Winston Churchill

[baritonejeff.livejournal.com]

The morons in my (reluctantly) adopted state of Ohio dug into their noses and fished out George Bush.