A life wasted

[Kulturkampf]

"This leads to the second reaction. Since August we have witnessed growing opposition to the Iraq war, but it is often whispered, hands covering mouths, as if it is dangerous to speak too loudly."

Is that true?

and I would like to add... I liked what the Roman poet Horace said:

"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori."

It is sweet and proper to die for one's country.

This is true because:
(a) Without sacrifice for the greater good against enemies, there is no unity of the people.
(b) This sacrifice is the largest embodiment of what it means for a collective force of people, and only when there is a collective force of people can there be safety for those who we want to shelter from the harm [the innocents]

And so both sides must always be commended on their dead, and it is always sweet and proper for th emen to fight and to die like this, because it is a representation of civic duty and government.

It was written in Nam-do, the way of men, the Confucian way of how we exist, as well as in the European codes of conduct and chivalry and the Roman Legion's SPQR, so this is a very universal concept that is representative of the very basis of civilization.