War never changes

Politicians hide themselves away/They only started the war/Why should they go out to fight?/They leave that all to the poor, yeah/Time will tell on their power minds/Making war just for fun/Treating people just like pawns in chess/Wait till their judgment day comes, yeah

Hawkeye: War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.

Father Mulcahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye?

Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?

Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe.

Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them — little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.

i think the real indictment is how we treat people who refuse to participate and die for the profit of the already rich; the government treats them with imprisonment while the rest of us treat them like a coward for standing up for themselves in thoroughly fucked up system..

"war is people that know each other but don't kill each other making people that don't know each other, kill each other"

I can't remember the author, but i love this old quote

Why do they always send the poor?

"War is where the old and bitter fool the young and reckless into killing each other"

Why don't presidents fight in wars? Why do they always send the poor?

I have never understood war. Why a country want to attack another country. To me is it like I am free to move there so I have no need to attack them. You disagree, just walk away. They have resources? Stealing is not allowed so you can't do that. You dont own the whole world. No one will. War only leads to people die. No one should be happy about that. Yes, I cannot fight in a war. I would be a coward and flee to a better place.

I don’t really understand this seemingly widespread notion - that is also represented in this comic - that nations “agree” to go to war.

That is not really how it works most of the time, there is usually an aggressor and a victim. It is usually not two powerful leaders butchering their own country’s population, but rather one powerful leader butchering two countries’ population.

I know it’s not the point of this comic, but this really, really annoys me.

It’s loss, isn’t it?

Anybody ever play Advanced Wars?

I loved that game as a kid. But as I've gotten older, it's really sad to watch my CO be this kid with something to prove sending people out to die because Yay Kaboom Wippee!

Kropp, on the other hand, is more philosophical. He reckons that all declarations of war ought to be made into a kind of festival, with entrance tickets and music, like they have at bullfights. Then the ministers and generals of the two countries would have to come into the ring, wearing boxing shorts, and armed with rubber truncheons, and have a go at each other. Whoever is left on his feet, his country is declared the winner. That would be simpler and fairer than things are out here, where the wrong people are fighting each other.

- All Quiet on the Western Front

Rich man's war, poor man's fight.

It's a good summary of "all quiet on the western front".

It's called the division of labor. You can't have the guy in charge of running things get turned into Beefaroni in a foxhole.

Fucking stupid. Like the decision to go to war doesn't weigh on the person and people having to make that decision.