Human beings never learn, do we? The way we can re-enact #1 over and over and over again throughout our entire history....

I say this because there seems to be something of a canard that young men go to war because they have been duped by old ones, and in this case if they were duped by anyone it was by themselves and their own conviction that they could whip Those Dirty Whosits by Christmas.

Yeah. This is probably more true of, like, Vietnam, but it definitely is a good thing to remember that it isn't true of every (or possibly most?) war!