War makes demons of men
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I find the effect on ordinary people frightening also.
I've said, "You know, most every war ends up with the disputing parties sitting around the negotiating table. I wish they could just end the war and go the negotiating table now, where they could work out whatever differences they have. It would save the lives of countless soldiers and civilians caught up in it, and all the destruction of property and disruption of society."
I get blank looks, like they literally have no idea what I'm talking about.
You forget the long brutal war is what makes people go to the negotiating table not because they want to. It’s the fatigue of war that makes disputing parties willing talk realizing the other side is much stronger then they had anticipated. All parties who engage in war would never negotiate if they could completely destroy their enemy before they became fatigued but that never happens except in some rare circumstances.
That might apply if wars were fought for the reasons publicly stated. In any analysis of wars in the last couple of centuries, that's the first delusion that has to be pitched overboard.