It's not just old men being stupid; it's roughly 60% old men AND old women in both government and VERY BIG business being cynical and 40% TRYING to do what they perceive to be the best thing for their country's national interests -- whether or not they turn out to have been correct when all is said and done. Only the relatively young see war as any sort of a game, and most of them 'grow' out of that once they get stuffed -- or voluntarily stuff themselves -- into a uniform.