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Colin
why not put war there? A soldiers job, unfortunatley, is to do the bidding of politicians. The following quote from 1914 still, sadly, rings true today:
"And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of official gentlemen, living luxurious lives, mostly stupid, and all without imagination or heart, have chosen that it should occur rather than that any one of them should suffer some infinitesimal rebuff to his country`s pride".
Bertrand Russell