Let the bastards who start the war be the only ones to fight it.
I will gladly share my plate with civilians from any nation, for I will have more in common with them than any national leader, talking head or oligarch.
“I feel then, as I feel now, that the politicians should be given the guns and told to fight amongst themselves, rather than organizing nothing more than mass murder.”
Harry Patch, last surviving veteran of World War One
NGL, heads of state challenging each other to exhibition boxing matches would be incredible. It would also radically alter who gets on the ballot for general elections, and we’d have to deal with concussed presidents and such. At the same time, the stakes would probably be state-level things (resources, borders, land, tariffs, embargos, sanctions, etc.), so everyone’s emotional state around a spectacle like that would be off the charts. People would riot after a loss.
Kat and Kropp get in an argument over the war as they rest from an hour’s worth of drill (occasioned by Tjaden’s not saluting a major properly). Kat believes the war would be over if leaders gave all the participants “the same grub and the same pay,” as he says in a rhyme. Kropp believes the leaders of each country should fight each other in an arena to settle the war; the “wrong” people currently do the fighting.
Let the bastards who start the war be the only ones to fight it.
I will gladly share my plate with civilians from any nation, for I will have more in common with them than any national leader, talking head or oligarch.
“I feel then, as I feel now, that the politicians should be given the guns and told to fight amongst themselves, rather than organizing nothing more than mass murder.”
Why don’t Presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor?
NGL, heads of state challenging each other to exhibition boxing matches would be incredible. It would also radically alter who gets on the ballot for general elections, and we’d have to deal with concussed presidents and such. At the same time, the stakes would probably be state-level things (resources, borders, land, tariffs, embargos, sanctions, etc.), so everyone’s emotional state around a spectacle like that would be off the charts. People would riot after a loss.
as a great wise man once said; what’s so civil about war anyway. it feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
- All Quiet on the Western Front