I like your viewpoint most of the time. It's biting, and to the quick. You bring up sharp images that may distress some and put off others. I see war like you do, although I ever doubt humanity will evolve past the need to be right, and be right violently at that.

Too many people walking around have a death wish or a seething hatred for something that needs revenge. I've been to ceremony (and to me that's ALL it is...CEREMONY) and I play along; knowing all the while some believe and some just go through the motions. It's the same in a relationship. Some just bear it, some enjoy it. And some don't believe in it.
We're a nation of cowards, zombies and fanatics.
(But some of us are normal....;~)