Writes Scott Evans: What an excellent link! That scene from “All Quiet on the Western Front” is one of the most memorable in film history. In every society, in every age throughout human history, war has been sustained by the jingoistic arrogance and ignorance of hordes of armchair warriors like Herr Professor Kantorek on the “home front” who have never experienced a taste of actual war (German civilians only a generation later, however, would get their fill of war, up close and personal, which is why today’s generation of Germans is the most pacifist in that people’s history). I’ve said … Continue reading A Taste of Our Own Medicine?