What's the point of war?

Question

I mean really? Is war really the right answer? Is it really worth it to send all these people out there and let them die?

Answer 1

Control

Answer 2

War is sometimes necessary. Nobody wants to see Innocent people die, but it's going to happen. And if you're referring to the military as all the people we send out there to let die, don't you think that they were aware the day could come that they may have to fight? People that are against war and our government should be thankful they have a choice not to join the Armed Forces. I'm so sick of all of these anti-government and anti-military idiots ***** about the way everything is being done, but I wonder what they have done to make this world a better place, and I guarantee not one of them are nearly as courageous as our United States Military Members!

Answer 3

It depends which side you're on.

Was war the right answer to the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941? Had we known from the beginning about the treatment of the Jews, might we have gone in sooner? At what point do you start weighing the cost of life against the cost of freedom? Does war achieve peace? Is war ever justified? Should it be a mechanism to stop the advance of terror?

The answer is not as black & white as you make the question out to be.

Answer 4

War is the Human races way of balancing its self, for instince when there are to many snakes the rodent population drops causing starvation, therfore causing the snake population to drop until nature balances out. People view war as a terrible thing, and for some people it is, but in the lngo run it helps. Think about it war casues new technolgy to appear faster, casue a boomnig economy, and (not trying to sound so statistic and cold) cut down the human population. I belive that as lngo as there are humans there will be war. War is just that away to keep the human race alive so be glad for without it this world would be a place of CONSTANT teror and dismay, famine, plaques, and other things would be occuring. Please let me no if this helped you.

Answer 5

no but the U.S. luvs to waste lives like they don't mean anything to anyone. All so they can have the last "good" battle. And they don't even care to realize who they are really hurting (the citizens of the U.S.). And thats why people that have luved ones in the war support the troops. The gov't controlling the war are all too caught up in who is winning the war. That they are so blind to the families that are losing their luved ones. I personally think war is wrong and nothing can be good about it. Not even one thing good comes from killing others. It is wrong. Iam sorry if i offended anyone. Thats just my opinion.

Answer 6

Did you have another way of trying to stop AL Queda? Many of the greatest minds in the wold have tried to find another way to stop Saddam's mass murders on his people, war was & is the only solution. Sadam is now a whiner in jail & al Queda is getting weaken. The deaths in Iraq are minimal compared to what they were before war removed Sadam. Everyone would like no war but until there are no terrorist or dictators that is a dream adults must wait for.

Answer 7

Sometimes war is favorable to the alternative.

Different countries and leaders have different values. Some of those value are such that they could cause massive damage to others, you MUST remember that many world leaders are there because they were willing to step on others to gain power.

Take the Nazi's. Could they have been stopped without war? We had no choice but fight, because they brough war on our allies, and eventually on us.

Now, the Iraq war doesn't have quite as much justification, but Saddam was the kind of man who would do the same as Hitler, if he had the resources. Sometimes you have to take chances for safety, sometimes those chances are taken in vain.

Answer 8

War is kinda like a storm, they basic law being that it continues until the disturbence that caused it can mended. War isnt necessary and then again it is. If ur a church goer you might no what god says, and simply that is that men will always war. Now set that aside, true peace is best, but war will always linger above our heads. War is remedy of something we'll never have... peace

Answer 9

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made so and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

Answer 10

War is almost always the right thing to do. Where would the U.S. be if we hadn't gone to war with britain, germany, the japanese, or Afghanistan? we would all be under part of there countries and would have no freedoms. that's what war accomplishes, it brings out the brave and roots out the cowards.