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Is there any such thing as a good war, a necessary war or a productive war?
I am always frightened of pat answers.
I’m talking about those responses given which attempt to be clever or cover a multitude of opinions in order to please everybody. We know that life doesn’t work that way. Actually, truth is a poison ivy that leaves everyone scratching.
So when you talk about war, it’s easy to take familiar stances.
For instance, “war is fine as long as we’re protecting the innocent.” The problem, of course is, who is really innocent?
And most people who decide to go to war tout that they’re doing it to “shelter the needy,” but have ulterior motives.
There are those who say war is necessary to promote our way of life. In other words, “these people are going to do what’s right or we’ll kill them.”
And there are people who contend that war is acceptable when we, ourselves, are attacked. Then the question comes, at what level? Are we talking about a bombing of our whole country, or an aggressive move toward one of our ships?
The truth of the matter is, war is so wrong that it must be won by people who know it’s evil.
If we begin to believe that there’s a righteous war, or our cause is anointed by the heavens and we’re allowed to enact violence, then we become the latest plague on the planet.
- War is wrong because it kills people.
- Killing people is against life.
- God is a promoter of life.
So what should we feel about war?
I think many wars are avoided by choosing our skirmish.
In other words, if we step in early enough and rip the bad seed out of the ground, the ugly cactus of conflict doesn’t have to pop up in the desert.
If we use diplomacy, a show of force and a line in the sand that we really do follow through on, we have a much better chance of avoiding a death toll and devastation.
Should the United States have become involved in World War II earlier? Yes–the U. S. should have stepped in when Hitler decided to annex part of Austria–long before he took over Poland, all of Europe and bombed the hell out of England.
We should have noticed the political upheaval in Viet Nam and addressed it with the tools available–a show of force and diplomacy–instead of sending human bodies to shoot at human bodies.
War is not inevitable. More often than not, it’s a refusal and a denial of existing problems, hoping they will go away, only to discover that they multiply.
For instance, in a marriage, long before there’s a divorce, there are a thousand junctures where communication and conversation could have changed the outcome.
War is caused by delay.
Delay is triggered by politics.
And politics is the notion that by pretending everything is good, we will get elected.
Choose the skirmish.
Avoid the war.
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