Making war, Fornari says, is a sacrificial duty performing essentially destructive functions which, however, has for men the significance of  destruction "put into the service of preserving what they love." 

Hitler declared: "We may be inhumane, but if we rescue Germany we have performed the greatest deed in the world." This statement is the template for nearly every form of political violence. Political violence is a rescue fantasy. 

Fornari writes about the complex of fanatic behavior, idealization of the leader, and the need to sacrifice oneself in the name of an ideal. Warfare is the "giving and receiving of martyrdom," the soldier being both the sacrificer and the sacrificial victim in the ritual.

What lies at the basis of this peculiar tendency of man to create certain values in the name of which he feels he must sacrifice himself? What is the absolute and unconditional "something" that justifies the establishment of a masochistic-sacrificial position?

Sacrifice "gives rise" to the object in the name of which sacrificial acts (dying and killing) are undertaken).

People don't call the soldier "masochistic"--because this would give the  game away. We call death in war honorable and noble...so the soldier will be more willing die in the name of the ideal.

The masochistic-sacrificial position becomes a "supervalue," Fornari ways, because it is put into the service of an "absolute and unconditional something."