Napoleon

Napoleon was no pacifist and we are probably surprised to hear him say this. But this is not necessarily the way we are supposed to put the problem. Perhaps we should ask ourselves whether if a natural-born warrior such as Napoleon was wise enough to at least make this observation, can’t we really?

Can’t we really admit at least that we are barbarians when fighting wars. You would say that two world wars, numerous conflicts on the European continent in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, colonialism and imperialism, slavery and exploitation of fellow man and, above all, the Holocaust would be horror elements enough to make us say: “Only barbarians make wars and we simply don’t want to be barbarians anymore”.

“Or we could just fight it out” they might probably say.