soldier and civilian, they die in their tens of thousands because death has been concocted for them, morality hitched like a halter round the warhorse so that we can talk about ‘target – rich environments’ and ‘collateral damage’ – that most infantile of attempts to shake off the crime of killing – and report the victory parades ,the tearing down of statues and the importance of peace.
governments like it this way. they want their people to see war as a drama of opposites, good and evil, ‘them’ and ‘us’, victory or defeat. but war is primarily not about victory or defeat, but about death and the infliction of death.
it represents the total failure of the human spirit.