Most women in the West see no reason to distinguish the warrior from the soldier or the soldier from the murderer. It was a madness associated with the warrior that—during the last war—destroyed the very fabric of culture which it was once the job of the warrior to preserve. Women in other countries may see that differently. A Russian woman from Kiev, whose generation of women have lived for many years without men their own age, said to me, “All the young men who were left after the battle for Kiev went to Moscow to defend it. Not one came back.” She went on, “I know that women in the United
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