Out of this shit. All of it.
Respect to those who gave their lives. And, just as importantly, maybe more, are the ones who came home. So like that is debatable.
Maybe I read too much. Maybe I don't read enough. And maybe I've seen enough.
Here is my point. ALL war is murder. Notice that I didn't call it self defense.
In all of recorded history.
@Absalom
Think about it.
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Bigheadfred,
certainly you're not wrong as 'good' wars' exist in comic books and the minds of toddlers.
Yet permit another perspective which I am suggesting yet cannot affirm nor will I belabor.
The Natural Law, reinforced by the great religions, prominently Judaism, defended the concept
of 'Just War' w/the provisos that:
* it was a last resort after all peaceful options had been exhausted,
* it was waged by a legitimate governing authority,
* it was fought as a self-defense mechanism to right an egregious wrong or attack.
In Man's earliest days the Just War did occur from time to time, but over the passage
of centuries it has evaporated as a justification for war. Yet why so?
Early Man was a composite of many attitudes and behaviors supported by a strong
spiritual sensibility exemplified in the Art he created.
Sadly that sensibility has eroded over time w/the great break coming from the
French Enlightenment which rejected both Monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church.
Those Radicals were the spawn of our modern leftist politics; their mantra being that the
'betterment of Man's existence on this Earth was more noble than any spiritual sensibility'.
The consequences of this was to usher in materialism as the higher calling and the world
is hardly better off for the sea change in impulse and temperament.
In sum, war in our time is fought to get "more stuff'; as well as ideological control!!!