“...completely in line with war as it has been for most of human history.”
And this one completely tragic and unnecessary. Neither side ever dreamed it would be that long and costly.
Which is one of the reasons I am unsettled by the talk of civil war we sometimes see.
I understand 100% the sentiment, and it may be true that we are indeed heading for a point of no conciliation with people who wish to destroy our Constitution and ways of life, as I accurately characterize the American Left, in my opinion.
But it is my feeling that people who clamor for this kind of thing get caught up in it without sufficiently recognizing or acknowledging that the death, suffering, cost, and long term misery that will be imposed cause most of the people involved to wonder how, once completely enveloped in the conflict, it ever started, and how they could get out of it.
For some reason, out of the blue, I felt like watching “Gone With The Wind” the other night, and it was the attitude “Well, the war will be over in a few weeks” that was accepted and prevalent. Granted, that was only a Hollywood movie, but I know that was the sentiment of many. Hell, that explains the crazy behavior of people at the First Battle of Bull Run (Manasses) who came in carriages with picnics to watch.
Also, like WWI. I have always thought that WWII was NOT avoidable...there was going to be war.
But WWI was just a horrible, horrible meat grinder of war that seems in retrospect that it could have been avoided.
When you read “The Guns of August”, knowing the carnage that resulted, it makes you nearly sick to your stomach, the whole, idiotic, stupid lead up to the shooting war.