A government doesn’t go around quietly asking people if they wish to go to war. A series of charges against the “enemy state” is trumped up; cries against the aggressor pour forth, as the propaganda machine gets in motion. An image is fashioned in the peoples’ minds of this dangerous, armed “imperialist” who is about to take their homes and ruin their existence.
The Art of Contrary Thinking by Humphrey B. Neill (pg. 127)
