America the Beautiful

D'souza argues that Americans should constantly be ready to go to war, regardless of their opinion on whether or not there should even be a war, because normally America only goes to war on the side of the "angels" and most of the time, apart from Vietnam, when we believe in something we will win the war regardless of the power of the opposing country. D'souza believes that going to war is a way that America becomes unified and it is because of that unity that America is the nation that it is today. D'souza also states that when all Americans believe in the war that they are fighting then they are successful. In the book Joe does not even know why he is fighting in the war and it is because of this that he can not possibly believe in it.  Joe does not understand the war and according to D'souza it is because of this that he was not as successful when you can not understand something then it is impossible for you to put your heart into it this could be the reason that joe ended up getting injured.