War is Boring . . .

War is Boring.  David Axe's text on the effects of war is brought to life by Matt Bors' art. 

It is a book, and concept, I am having trouble wrapping my head around.  As a child I encountered war as Hitler's Nazi's invaded my homeland of Slovakia.  The fact that my father, who disappeared into a concentration camp and was never seen alive again. was a very personal tragedy for me and my family. Only one of the millions of lives interrupted by World War II. So I guess that from an early age I have been adamantly anti-war. 

I have watched, at first at close range, most recently at a distance since I no longer live there, as the USA has become a very militaristic nation.  "Wars" have become a modus operandi for both US politicians and naturally the Pentagon. War has become a business.  A way of life with the vast majority of the people who now seem to accept a distant war as an integral part of daily life.  Well, at least it provides nightly fare for their TV viewing — as long as the death and distruction is thousands of miles distance from their comfortable living rooms.

War might seem have its boring aspects for an American writer and journalist, but would be viewed much more differently for a family in a war zone who have just lost family members because of an American, or 'coalition',  war in THEIR country. 

Boredom and death are very different things. 
 
I'm not criticizing David Axe's narrative, but rather the political, military and religious views which continue to produce man's inhumanity to his fellow man.

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Comments

[Daxe]

Hello. David Axe here. The title is mostly ironic. WAR IS BORING is very much about the effects of war on people -- myself, especially. You should read the book.