violence. there was the drive to make a better weapon. .. then the get the machinery. the machinery takes on a life of its own. then it becomes so complex. and your individual prerogatives. then you get the political pressure. there was enormous one the reasons that we dropped the bombs was because they believed it would end the war quickly. i don t i wrestle with this. i believe that. that s not the only reason. there were many reasons we dropped the bomb. another one was politically. you don t show what you spent all of that money, you democrats spent all of the money for during the war. you don t show what it was. you are do you meaned in the postwar elections. unfortunately we are out of time. we barely dented this book. one the things that really impressed me was not just the number of parallels between the two long painful wars fought by two different generations now, but the depths and the breaths of those parallels and important differences. i hope this become