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To: GST who wrote (111752)	8/16/2003 4:40:37 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi GST; Re: "By that estimate, 15 million Americans think "war is fun"." A person only finds out whether or not war is fun (for them) by getting up close to one. Most Americans have never heard a shot fired in fear, much less had thrust upon them the opportunity to defend their territory against a foreign invader. I doubt that very many in Bush's administration think war is fun either. In fact, I doubt that they "think" much at all. By the way, most of the people I've known who loved to fight satisfied their tastes by hanging around in places where fights broke out. -- Carl P.S. I use "shots fired in fear" because I hate that trite expression "shots fired in anger". The primary emotion on a battlefield is fear, not anger. When a guy kills his wife it's generally shots fired in anger, but war is almost entirely shots fired in fear. The civilian leadership probably feels anger more than fear, at least when they're sending soldiers to attack some dinky country like Iraq, but soldiers feel fear. Fear that is controlled, or is supposed to be, but fear nevertheless. Fear is what keeps you alive. Bravery means controlling fear, not failing to feel it.