I don't necessarily agree

The First Casualty:

It’s been said by many that antiwar films are secretly complicit in war because they can’t help showing it off in all its messy glory. Stanley Kubrick’s “Paths of Glory,” a First World War drama from 1957, at Film Forum March 30-31, is an exception.

This was, and is, a great movie. Very "unKubrick-like" in many ways, but it was his first and, in many ways, his most understandable (shall we say "linear"?)

Certainly, it is one of the best examples of the gross injustices that war brings upon us (it is based on a true story). But war is not the aberration that today's writers, directors, etc. would have us believe. It is, fortunately or unfortunately, the most prevalent form of conflict resolution in all of history; and it is an intensification of the human condition.

Life without war is not just or "fair" as today's helicopter parents would like it to be; therefore life in the midst of war is that much more unjust. Somebody please call me when that changes....