On the (false) They vs. We/us distinction (particularly in GR?)

[Mark Kohut]

Ms. Tuchman in the foreword to The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
originally, 1966. 
 
"Besides , it [the Grosse Politik ] had been used up; it allows us to rest on the easy illusion that it is "They', the
naughty statesmen, who are always responsible for war while "we" the innocent people are merely led. That
impression is a mistake." 
 
And back to AtD: 
And, from writer Stfan Zweig, 33 y.o. in 1914: "believed that the outbreak of war 'had nothing to do with ideas
and hardly even with frontiers. I cannot explain it otherwise thatn by this surplus force, a tragic consequence of
the internal dynamism that had accumulated in forthy years of peace.and now sought violent release."......
 
Return of the What???, "you gonna want casue & effect?"--GR
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