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race does about it. In the 19th century, Napoleon, the ultimate immediate effect of the French Revolution, and its most conspicuous contradiction, was cited as the cause of the wars. It’s a real pleasure to point out that a republican revolution, producing an emperor, was the cause of other emperors deciding to fight wars against him, in the name of restoring a spent monarchy that nobody wanted. In fact, they’d all been fighting wars against the Bourbons since well before Napoleon. It does take two sides to fight a war, even if neither have any real idea why they’re fighting it, or for what. It will be noted from this delicately phrased theory that human mentality is perfectly capable of creating reasons for people to get killed without any assistance whatsoever from actual facts. From War Is A State Of Mind |
