’The truth is that there is no good war. Every war
contaminates all who engage in it. Every war, even
a just or necessary one, is an atrocity, a disastrous
failure of civilization, a breakdown of humanity's
higher faculties, and an eclipse of its worthiest
aspirations. Those who mindlessly call soldiers
heroes and patriots are not supporting the soldiers
but rather perpetuating the vicious cycle of
destructive myth, shrill demagogy, and roused
tribalism that will lead to the next war. The soldier-
as-hero narrative represents, on a deep level, a
false consciousness stoked by a society that lacks
the moral imagination and political courage to
transcend its primitive tribal impulses.’
~ Noam Shpancer, Ph.D, Professor of Psychology