Why did Dhirtarashtra ask for eyes to see the universal form but refuse the eyes to see the Kurukshetra war?

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Question, why did Dhritarashtra ask for eyes to see Krishna’s universal form, but refuse the eyes to see the Kurukshetra war? Answer, because of his attachment to the kingdom as signified by Dhritarashtra, one who was very attached to the kingdom, Dhritarashtra was actually caught between two contradictory forces. It was hope for the impossible and fear of the inevitable. Hope for the impossible means that he was hoping somehow my sons will win the war and they will hold on to the kingdom and by that I will hold on to the kingdom.
But this he knew was impossible. And on the other hand, there was a fear of the inevitable. The inevitable was that his sons were going to be destroyed because they were fighting against the virtuous Pandavas who were guided and aided by the Supreme Lord, the Lord of the Goddess of Fortune.
So now, because he had some understanding of dharma which was covered over by his attachment, sometimes that understanding of dharma would surface and that’s why when Krishna displayed the Vishwaroopa and all the courtiers were stunned, then he asked Krishna, please show me the Vishwaroopa. So he had some sense of reverence, some sense of dharma, so he was not as insolent and brazen as Duryodhana who later on dismissed the Vishwaroopa just as some magic. Dhritarashtra accepted Krishna’s divinity and he at least intellectually but not emotionally, he intellectually accepted that and when that was being demonstrated, he requested that I want to see it.
So that was some level of dharma was there in him because of which he saw it. But before the Kurukshetra war, when Vyasadeva offered him eyes, so at that time he, because he knew in his heart of heart that actually my sons are going to be destroyed and that’s why he said I don’t want the eyes. His thoughts were that I couldn’t see my sons in life, what is the point of seeing them in death? It will be too agonizing for me to see but because at the same time he had the hope that maybe, maybe my sons will win, so he said that please give the vision to Sanjay by which I will be able to get a live report of what is happening.
So Dhritarashtra’s various ambivalent decisions reflect his ambivalent mentality of being torn, caught and torn between hoping for the impossible and dreading the inevitable. Thank you.