What is your opinion on war, in general?

Soul Rebel

Warfare is a great matter to a nation;

it is the ground of death and of life;

it is the way of survival and of destruction, and must be carefully examined.

The Art of War by Sun Tzu.

That above-mentioned quote says it all.

nicekrngirl

i think it's silly and a waste of human lives and money. can't we all just get along?

allen

War should be the absolute last resort. When all else fails, and even then it should only be to defend yourself. Not for political or economic gains.

blktiger@pacbell.net

It would be a great joy to be able to say, "Ban all war!" But: War is, unfortunately, a necessary evil in a world where force is necessary for the defense of life, liberty, and morality.

It should be avoided if at all possible,
. . .entered with moral, definite, and specific objectives in mind,
. . . . . .waged with as much humanity as possible (yes, I know, not an easy task),
. . . . . . . . and ended as soon as possible.

sciencegeek+

anything that harms humanity as opposed to helping is foolish and should be eliminated from the human vocabulary. but it is here to stay.

technical difficulties

a real waste.

Big Blair

As an officer in the military I have to be careful of what I say because expressing contempt for officials is criminally prosecutable; however, I can say that I think the Powell Doctrine of overwhelming force would have been a preferable way to operate despite the higher dollar cost.

Krissy

I wish we did not have to go to war but sometimes, we have to .

littlemsbrunette185

I have two answers for that:
One: I believe that war is necessary 'only' when you really have a desire to defend what you really believe in. In this case, I believe war was necessary for the US. Our freedom isn't going to be threatened by terrorists, and I know it comes with a price.

On the other hand, I do believe that war is the most brutal thing that has ever existed; it'll still exist as long as man is still in charge.

I think the tricky part is knowing when enough is enough.

And two:
{My own feelings about war are that I do not wish to take in any part of it; in which would be destructive; which would include going into the militia. It may be a little over the top, a little too idealistic and possibly be shunned, but it's the way I feel. I support our country and our troops; I pray for them every day.}

Joey W

This may sound some what ( ah man I can't this) Machiavellian, but I believe that the war in Iraq was inevitable. Now I know that it looks like the US was some what aggressive in going into Iraq, but I think it was better not to hesitate. Also, Bush had to know that people were going to hate him for what he did in Iraq, but he followed what he knew must truly be done.

****_mother

War is always a thing filled with sin, and the bible says its wrong, but war must happen to improve the world at times and stop people.

voltaire

The great majority of us claim (with some real sincerity too) that we disdain war and violence. Our real opposition to war ought to be in studying the causes of war and working sedulously against these causes coming to the fore. Aside from that, we can refrain from preparing for war or finding reasons to justify it. Wars are incredibly ugly; their reality is really too ghastly to comprehend. So, people who support war are generally people without a lot of knowledge of what war is really like.

I oppose war philosophically, but I have to admit that, given my personality and psychology, I would probably have volunteered to fight in World War Two. I might feel like it was a kind of test of character... that I was supposed to demonstrate courage along with millions of others and risk a horrible death, and that after this the world would be sort-of rescued from indecency and horror because of our courage and unselfishness. I don't know.

I should point out here also that I was neutral on the matter of war with Iraq in 2003 when the war actually started. I, like so many other people, was not sure that Saddam Hussein possessed prohibited WMD, but I was quite sure he had been *****-footing around with the UNSCOM team for many years; and this, of course, led many to suspect the worst. I don't like war, but I did not actually have a better plan to make the world safe from dastards like Saddam Hussein. Thus my neutrality. However, I should point out that after the war started I was no longer neutral: I wanted the Americans to win very quickly and decisively. Several months ago I became convinced that the Iraq war was unwinnable for the U.S. because the insurgents surely by 2006 realized that they don't really have to beat the Americans, but just make them give up and leave. So, the agenda of the insurgents now is to start a civil war. It is definitely a civil war now. The U.S. military, I believe, should have left Iraq in February or March of this year. Now it seems very much that the current president is trying to (coincidentally??) rescue his place in history by continuing a fight that cannot possibly be won. What is likely to happen now is that American support for the war will continue to erode and in 2008 the war will be the major campaign issue. With no end to the war in sight, Americans will support the Democratic candidate, who will have a plan to withdraw from Iraq very soon. That Democrat will be elected, most probably. The American military comes back, and Iraq suffers a terrible, internecine civil war which results in the dismemberment of Iraq into three different countries. What will the insurgents have won? Well, all they were ever really fighting for was a place in the terrestrial world as a man, or finding agreeable manhood by courageous, manly death in battle (and after two humiliating defeats at the hands of the Americans - in January and February of 1991 and in March and April 2003 - they had neither of these).

Now it is especially important that we all try to learn about spirituality because in the current age of international terrorism and proliferating weapons of mass destruction the world is in quite a lot of trouble. About 45 years ago John Kennedy said, "Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind." Sadly, in the current political atmosphere, there is no mention of "putting an end to war." And thus we march headlong into a catastrophic future.

ï®

It's greed and hate transformed into lethal action. How can that be justified?

3rd parties for REAL CHANGE

In all instances of war politicians look at all decisions on a cost benefit analysis. War is not pretty, it is merely a means to an end.

blindogben

"War is hell". Yes it is stupid, but is a fact of life. There has aways been war and,sadly,probably always will be.

just me

the U.S is loosing and it is all political reason

Speedfreak

War is hell, but it is also an inevitability because of human nature.

It is a nasty, but often effective tool.

eeeeeeeeclipse

I don't like it, nope, not a fan of war.

kevin T

War is a part of life. It is at times just a fight between people that disagree and all other attempts to solve a problem have ended. It is like you and someone at work disagreeing and if you both feel strongly about something, you are going to press your opinion until someone steps into settle it for the two individuals or you fight for supremacy. Humans have always had this problem because someone wanted something and would do anything to get it. If someone else has it, some one will try and take it from them. Power, money, and fame are dangerous things in our lives and what we demand to be comfortable in life. IN different cultures, it is acceptable to kill for what they want and some cultures its not acceptable, then after time they will clash over these issues and the biggest kid on the block usually wins. Only when we decide to listen to someone and their views and accept them over time, but someone will never accept them , so war happens to get their point across

Here is a link I found that shows how easy it is to start a war!

http://www.ark1.net/hanimlarikizdirmayin.htm

nanabooboo

war is never a good thing but unfortunately sometimes inevitable and all we can do is hope that whomever is in charge resolves the darn thing before too many lives are lost.

markm

War is a waste I've been to the cemetery's in France for WW1 and WW2 soldiers there are crosses as far as the eye can see just miles and miles of crosses and there are so many graves that don't have any name at all just 'known only unto god' the
soldiers buried there are 17-22 year old kids too many of them died in horrific ways we can't imagine. War cemetery's are a legacy of war and it's aftermath they are a reminder to us all that someone paid the price for a free world and it wasn't cheap.

What gets me very angry are young punks who piss on war memorials and even on soldiers graves like this drunk guy and
his friends did this summer (the unknown soldier is resting
there so it is pissing on a war grave)

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2006/07/03/ott-warmemorialpee.html

That's how you show the soldier up in heaven your respect
for his sacrifices?! *sigh* someday you kids out there could be in that grave or your name on a memorial if you had to go fight in WW3. I'm sure not one of you would appreciate somebody doing to you what this guy did :(

imxxlboxers

War is nothing but an excuse for murdering people.

thanks to our brave troops,

i am for the war,, i want our world to be safe from all the terriosts that we have ,, i am against all our brave men and women having to die for it though,,,
i ithink some of the countries that harbor terriosts should just be wiped off the face of the earth and the hell with them all,,
i know what we are doing is for the good,,,
but it is also scary to think how long it shall last,, and how many more we shall have to fight,,,

gregory_dittman

A soldier is like a religious figure out to fight evil to save souls, in this case, not of men but of whole countries.

andylinxer

Well, Personally, I think was is alot of the time very needed. It is the only way to end conflict sometimes. Take the war in the Iraq, I would prefer nobody died, but we cant just ask them to please stop hating the americans, they are going to try to hurt us until they die.

college_republicans_club

War is diplomacy by "other means"

smack

war is a fact of life and sometimes u need to dominate to ensure the survival of ur empire and ur people... the problem i see in the US is we have outside forces that our above our constitution with their own agenda that treat the american people like they are part of the problem to ...

Alex B. Ph.D.

Its necessary. Society began as one family group among many many others. One was starving, wanted the other group's food, tried to take it and there was a brawl. Now they shouldn't be able to steal food right? Its the same now days. The world will always have wars, and wars will always be necessary to keep idiots from ruling the world

Mrs. Puttputt

i disagree in most cases. sometimes that is the only thing left to do and in that case i do agree. when it is the only, only, thing left to do.

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