"Gentlemen, hesitation will lead to the destruction of the kingdom. We must move forward!"
The conference table made a noise, as the man supported himself on the edge of the table with one hand and slapped a thick stack of documents with the other.
"If we stop now to negotiate peace, all our efforts up to this point will have been in vain! The citizens will not accept such a thing! Soldiers spilling their blood on the front lines are even less likely to accept it! It would be like stabbing them in the back!!"
This was clearly a typical declaration from the military, and if it had indeed come from a soldier—more precisely, from the army staff—it wouldn't have been surprising. Fools with nothing but war on their minds, and anyone who dares to stand in their way is surely a "traitor stabbing them in the back," a traitor that must be "punished by heaven." That's how they have always thought and acted.
