That was also my thought. That the world has gotten a whole lot less sanitized since 1989 if an article so brutal could fail to change my impression of war very

That was also my thought. That the world has gotten a whole lot less sanitized since 1989 if an article so brutal could fail to change my impression of war very much at all. I had already internalized that every heroic portrayal was bullshit and that it was all a big great murderfest. The most striking thing about war is that most people only need the slightest of nudges to start blowing each other to bits. We are a thin crust on bottomless savagery.