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Originally Posted by octothorp
It's a bit of a Maslow's Hammer situation: if all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail; if you spent a significant amount of time as a soldier, you might tend to look at a wide range of problems as things that can be solved by war. Perhaps it can even give someone a feeling of purpose to think that the major events and sacrifices of their own life are something that could fix a lot of the world's problems today.
(Not suggesting such a perspective is common among veterans, just that this might be what's going on here.)
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I really disagree with that, if you look at the majority of the guys I've talked to Soldiers don't really like war, because they die in them in massive numbers, and they see the death and destruction caused by it. But they also realize that sometimes no matter how horrible and how chances are its going to lead to them getting fed to that insatiable beast it is necessary.
While the average soldier looks at things as more in black or white on whether or not to go to war, they don't see it as a trivial thing, or a solution to problems.