Andy Lynch wrote:
The first question to consider is the innocent people of North Korea; they are not the disturbed leader. And then South Korea. And then our Troops. And then the effect on the world. This is a madness statement. Freaking insane! Logic and reason, heart and soul, is missing. How much more evidence that "war is hell" do we need? Open a history book.
Or are such struggles a reality we just need to accept? The real world? Hey, your children and friends and others and you will most likely die, but our system won. Rejoice, if you still breathe.
Reading history, it is hard to see any real effort to avert armed conflict. No concerted "this is madness" approach to war. National pride, National needs, National greed, National defense, National economics--all command the insanity of a military response. Kill the innocent to either make a point or gain a point. Bizarre. Sick. Disgusting. Yet we continue in this debauchery as if calling a sports event. In the 18th and 19th Century of the British Empire, going to war was a rite of passage, how you became a man. It was de rigueur. Killing others in foreign lands for whatever reason was a social plum.
Christians insists that those dead from aerial bombings or whatever were not murdered but merely killed. "Stop whining, mothers, your children and friends and mate were not murdered but merely killed. Rejoice and be glad!" Insanity.
The first question to consider is the innocent peo... (
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War is part of the human condition. Over 90 percent of recorded history contains one or more wars. Nothing you can do about it, so quit whining.