War Is a Racket by General Smedley D. Butler (1933)
<i>"But the soldier pays the biggest part of the bill"</i><p>I'm not sure how it was in Butler's time, but I've read that the overwhelming
majority of casualties in modern warfare are civilians. It would seem to me that
they are the ones who pay "the biggest part of the bill".<p>Not that I would deny that the people doing the mass murder can themselves become
the victims of war. But I'd personally have more sympathy for civilians who are not
trying to murder others but are themselves murdered.