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This may seem like a joke, but it’s been debated before, and I’m not talking about the song.
What is war good for?
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Absolutely nothing! War is having people with man-made positions of power instructing others to kill each other to gain materialistic items.
If that were true, then tribal warfare wouldn't happen. War is how desperate peoples fight over limited resources. That's what it's almost always about and it's always going to happen.
War is necessary for solving our conflicts because no one just wants to talk, thats not reality.
War is a terrible thing and started by terrible people, but those terrible people can only be stopped by fighting back. If we were not willing to go to war to stop aggression the Hitler's of this world would be running it.
You asked; "What is war good for?"
1776 – without the war for independence, we would have no United States of America.
1860 – Without the Civil War being fought, there still would be slavery on the North American Continent.
1941 – Without the U.S. entering WW2, all of Europe would be under the NAZI flag.
Does that answer your question?
+1 As the old saying goes Peace takes two willing parties, war only takes one.
If somebody enacts war AGAINST you, war will be your only recourse. If somebody is doing something horribly wrong and it needs to stop, war will be the only means to stop it.
Land disputes, genocides, political dictatorships and other very nasty things are best solved with war.
Of course like anything it can be abused….but that's not the question
war is as natural as peace, if you want something uhh for example freedom (sound familiar) you have to stand up and take it. But everyone except jared seems to understand this. This view is rather naive as it assumes that everyone is perfect and disgreements don’t happen. Unfortunately this is not this case, ironically this is the same mindset that communism was based upon.
i tells it like it is.
You tell it how it shouldn't be. You shouldn't have to send American soldiers out to be murdered to bring peace. There's a solution to every problem, without violence included. War is the easy-way-out.
I’m sorry Jared, maybe I assumed too much. Muslims believe in a “holy war” called the jihad, in which they must take over the world in Allah’s name. This is in the Koran, its not a matter of sitting down and discussing it. Americans have attempted with “apparent success” with the same muslim leaders preaching the same anti-american propaganda a week later.
You can’t reason with them, there sole task is to take down the “infidel”.
Therefore American soldiers msut be sent to defend the Unted States from numerous terrorist attacks. Saving lives of Americans everywhere, possibly yours.
P.S not all muslums are extremists, i am merely speaking about the radical ones.
Absolutely nothing!!! War never solves anything unless there is a total imminent threat like Hitler.
What is it good for? a lot actually, I like papadawg's examples. War is terrible, but an option at times.
what is this ?war never solves anything unless there was the civil war that john c.
saying war is pointless, fruitless, and evil is like saying the same of wildfires… they are both destructive and can eradicate beautiful things and hurt & kill the innocent but the forest must eventually burn so the soil stays fertile. but also like wildfires war isn't always good, perhaps there was no need or there was an arsonist, but that doesn't change the fact that until all of humanities flaws are eradicated war will be necessary.
civil wars overthrow tyrants and other forms of oppression
world war 1 caused more harm than good ( arsonist = assassination if you aren't following the analogy)
world war 2 crushed the Nazi's, caused damage to the Soviets, and removed Japanese oppression from Asia.
some more recent wars like Korea, Iraq, and Iraq 2 have been about protecting other nations from invasion.
vietnam too was about giving aid, however it was handled poorly, just because a war is lost doesn't make it evil.
besides even if you are right that war is almost always an evil destruction of life… what about Hitler?
we tried your 'diplomacy' and 'appeasement' and all the rest… hitler didn't stop. war wasn't prevented. the holocaust still happened. what if we didn't fight back? in the name of preventing such evil as war? well then Europe and the rest of the world would be under Nazi control, Hitler's legacy living on and causing more death in the form of genocide than would have by the war itself. Hitler was a madman. he wasn't and isn't the only one.
Muslim extremists-not all Muslims are bad but that doesn't bring the towers back
Stalin-if not for the US we'd be hailing red flags
Napoleon- not all that 'evil' but it's all the same
Mao-yes he was planning invasions of other countries
and many others who were just in charge of too small of countries to be of any threat
please prove me wrong, i wish we didn't need war but we do.
you're right but we should be using smarter tactics, more drones less troops among other things lest this turn into another Vietnam where we could've easily made nukes into earthquake bombs and collapsed countless systems without putting a single soldier down a hole.