In competitive sports, as in its alter-ego war
opponents face off to achieve victory and it is not
unknown for one team to haphazardly outdo itself
in blocking a score by its own team alternately
erroneously assisting a competitor to score. These
untoward events carry over into conflict where
armies fighting on the same side occasionally
bomb one another; misadventures named 'friendly fire'.
How often does it occur that a fighter pilot imagines
himself over enemy territory and unleashes a bomb
on his own home geography in a spectacular instance
of an aggressor nation convincing its military that the
invaded nation is no nation at all, but a part of their own
that must be reclaimed handing a courteous reason for
jubilation to the valorous nation defending its sovereign
state against an aggressor in conquest delirium?
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