I agree
And anyhow, perhaps all the wars of the 20th century, more and more about politics and territory, contributed to the spiritual slide of the West. People saw themselves being pulled by governments into drawn out conflicts that didn’t seem to make sense.
Perhaps the conquest of Japan was the cleanest war of all those waged in the 20th century. Two atom bombs and that saved the rest of Japan, as well as the morals of the West. Broad population wars are very demoralizing.
I guess the moral would be that if you MUST wage a war, don’t do it as trying to inflict a death of a thousand cuts. Smack as hard as you possibly can and then when a surrender comes, accept it graciously.
And frankly... if the US gets petitioned to participate in a war that’s not going to be along those lines, it should decline.