The Tragic Worthlessness of War:

Watching the world these days might make one think the belief in war to be modern. In contrast these words: war, fighting and conflict have always existed as part of the human way. Might war be not the way of thugs but the way of mankind itself? Is being human in the end the same thing as being a creature of war?
Why? For war has no winner. No people in the history of man has ever won a war. How can one tell the mother of a dead soldier the war has been won? Can someone tell me who the winner is? Is it society, having to deal with the grief, destruction and blood that mankind leaves behind itself? Is it the country having lost a generation of men? Is it the King the throne of whom is made of blood and bones? The king who in the end dies as worthless a death himself.
Sun Tzu left the last chapter out, when he wrote what would become "The Art of War". He left out the part telling us there is no art to war. There is only the bodies of men, women and children, being fed to the meatgrinder that is the human existence.
"Only the dead have seen the end of war" - George Santayana