Because people refuse to believe that any person could want to be a warrior.

The same people who have read a hundred history books about wars all over the world will swear that we're all actually peaceful by nature.

Look up a book called 'The First Casualty." It's a history of war correspondents.

One Vietnam era reporter was adamantly antiwar. He was approached by a publisher who wanted to do a book that would 'take the glamour out of war.'

The response was 'taking the glamour out of war is like taking the glamour out of sex.'

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