I understand completely.
I just think that with very little effort, one could update Apocalypse Now to the war in Iraq.
I will never forget the scene where Brando is describing the efforts to innoculate some children and the VC come back hours later and “hack off the arms of all those children... Give me a division of men like those I can win the war...”
We are still fighting the same instincts, I think. We can’t win against an enemy that kills children... We just don’t have the inhumanity for it.
“We can’t win against an enemy that kills children..’
And if that isn’t bad enough, there is no real defense against someone who wants to kill himself while killing you.