War is in everyone's mind lately.  Unfortunately, its difficult for me to think about a war from moral perspective.  This is because I am a war and history buff of sort.  When you read enough history, wars feels like pimples: you will have them once in a while.  If you are into reading about and reenacting past wars at all levels (strategic, operational, and tactical), wars become games.  This doesn't mean I am not aware of the tragedies of war.  Its just that war to me is like what sex must be like to a 40 year old prostitute.

I just started watching Band of Brothers, story of 101st Easy Company's journey from Normandy to German Alps.  I have read the book when it came out years ago and played almost every combat 101st had in WW II in one game or another.  Latest run was with Combat Mission which lets you fight in 3D environments at squal level.  With latest game technologies, you can almost glimpse how the war feels.  You start with a jolt when one of your company, tasked with a flanking manuever, runs smack into an ambush.  Then you get a shock when the tanks you sent to assist go up like candles.  Despair follows shock when you hear that distinct sound of Tigers prowling somewhere out there.  Its time to retreat to fight another day.  War never ends, you know.