Question: what were harry patch lasting views on war

title: Harry Patch
text: When the war ended , I do n't know if I was more relieved that we 'd won or that I did n't have to go back . Passchendaele was a disastrous battle -- thousands and thousands of young lives were lost . It makes me angry . Earlier this year , I went back to Ypres to shake the hand of Charles Kuentz , Germany 's only surviving veteran from the war . It was emotional . He is 107 . We 've had 87 years to think what war is . To me , it 's a licence to go out and murder . Why should the British government call me up and take me out to a battlefield to shoot a man I never knew , whose language I could n't speak ? All those lives lost for a war finished over a table . Now what is the sense in that ? -- 

Answer: answer: To Harry Patch, it's a license to go out and murder.  All those lives lost for a war finished over a table, and now what is the sense in that?
answer: He considered the war to be a license to go out and murder. He questioned the sense behind all those lives lost for a war finished over a table and that behind being called up and sent to a battlefield to shoot a man he never knew, whose language he couldn't speak.