Quote Originally Posted by redgunamo View Post
Not at all. In fact, it's the other way about; civilians need to be kept well out of it.

As you put it, moral equivalence isn't terribly appropriate to war. Professional fighters know and accept this fact. And also its consequences. Forcing lots of civvies to accept it too, as they return to their families, their factories and their offices, poisons society for generations to come, as we see.

Nowadays, we know better. And we will recover, of course, but it was a lesson learned the hard way.
Ah, I see. Leave war to the professionals.