Ware and Abuse

From a website on child abuse: (www.primalspirit.com/deMause3-1_ChildAbuse.htm#1.)

All social violence is ultimately a consequence of child abuse, and we are likely to continue our periodic sacrificial rituals of war if the infliction of childhood trauma continues.

Which got me thinking that our most recent wars could be charactized a children's wars, that is, wars fought by childern. Starting from Vietnam -- these voluntary wars -- many of the men who fought at the front were just out of childhood.

In a sense then, these wars were an extension of child abuse, with the old men -- the politicians and generals -- sending young men to be wounded or to die.