This is the kind of man that Joe was talking about. As Joe would put it, he says all of these big words as to why you should fight, when really he doesn’t care about the soldiers. He’s one of the people in Johnny Got His Gun that persuades other people to go out and fight for “democracy” or for “the common wealth,” but you certainly don’t see him doing it himself. He doesn’t care about anything other than winning the war, and America being more powerful. Some people, like me, would call him a war mongral.