Reddit reviews War and the American Difference

Our insistence that war deaths be made meaningful causes so many problems. And I do mean made meaningful, because so many of them are not on the face of it.

This is a very American philosophy of war. We’ve been doing it for a long time - the Gettysburg address mentions it - but not the whole time.

Edit: link

Edit 2: It also just occurred to me that mixing up “meaningless death” and “unnecessary death” is a problem. If one runs a business for ten years and then it fails, it doesn’t follow that one should never have started, or that any sacrifices made along the way were unnecessary.

https://i.imgur.com/eTzNcc4.png

> This is a [very American philosophy of war](War and the American Difference: Theological Reflections on Violence and National Identity https://www.amazon.com/dp/0801039290/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_ljNNBb6HQN0AT).

It needs to be:

very American philosophy of war

rendering as:

> This is a very American philosophy of war.