I totally agree! Having spent time inVietnam in the late ssixties as a medic, I learned very quickly that BOTH sides (at least at the commoners level) suffer tremendous loss. Women and innocent children are sent to their deaths, survivors live with pain and nightmares, and the war is never over until the last soldier, victim, and survivor finally dies.

Perhaps at higher levels, those folks who instigate and send others to to do their battles and pay the consequences find themselves gaining more power or wealth, but even this is a small benefit, not a win.

My observance is that BOTH sides lose. They lose friends. They lose neighbors. They lose loved ones. Family trees completely end and surnames become extinct. Dreams become agonies... futures end.

War has never been and will never be a game... despite the continued attempt of comparing the two.

In the end, BOTH sides lose... one side may believe it has just lost a little less than the other side but in reality, mankind and civilization ALWAYS loses... and we ALL lose some of our humanity...