Clausewitz's Lies

Clauswewtiz said that war is a continuation of policy by other means, or we are merely exchanging talks for bombings, as if the subcutaneous introjection of metal objects into the bodies of young men were nothing more than an alternative to other stratagems. This is a lie, but it is a big lie, a whopper, actually, and we have swallowed it hook, line, and sinker, as we of western civilization have swallowed so many other big lies. War is complete dysfunctionality. War is hell. The embrace of the way of violence, particularly that embraced by the USA in the years following World War II, is a vile embrace, an embrace that soils those whom it encompasses.