War - Really, What Is It Good For?

32. In The Garden of Beasts

Once again we see that really war is about male ego and one upping each other.  One day one guy likes another guy, then they hate them and are hell bent on taking power away from them.  Only in retrospect does anyone give anyone else any credit.  Dodd could have never been successful because no one wanted him to be.  Hitler was successful because instead of just gossiping about people and bad mouthing them he had them killed.  It is all so ridiculous, they say they have the good of the country and its people at heart but they don't.  They have their own interests at heart and their own desire to be right is paramount.

I read a comment on Facebook TODAY that said that people who voted against saying the Pledge of Allegiance before the Eugene City Council meetings should be taken out and beaten as traitors to the flag.  I wonder if this man would see the direct correlation to his words and Hitler's actions if he read this book.  Doubtful, I am sure he would just say that what he thinks is right.  It makes me ill.  And shameful.  And scared.

As for the book itself, I was really looking forward to it but found myself disappointed because it felt boring. It was certainly well researched and well written but I have heard a lot of it before.  Plus, it is about a man going to Germany to stop a war that we all know proceeded to happened and was more atrocious than anyone ever could have imagined, so the ending was clear from the beginning.