is it not about time....?

Question

that people really understood what it means to fight a war????

the question is ' to fight a war!'

Answer 1

not never time for war

Answer 2

People know only to well what it means but as an arrogant society we still continue to fight, it seems that humans can't resist getting involved in wars, it seems that to some extent our so called advanced intelligence is also our downfall, we are a greedy and selfish species, all of us are to some extent, fighting is pointless, we have a beautiful planet and yet we are destroying it one way or another, get our British troops out of Iraq is what I say, stuff what President Bush wants, he's a plank.

Answer 3

Oh, it's about time! Ever since the news media has gotten a hold on reporting war on a real time basis, people have gotten soft in the pants and weak in the knees about war. We're Americans, which means we've been so used to getting our way since the end of the second world war that we expect that we can show up to the table on any international issue and deal with it peacefully through intimidation. To this I say, "Wake up America!" Even the smallest of nations have learned a few lessons over the twentieth century that we have failed to realize.

One of the very first things that backward and small nations learned about super powers is that they're not super. In Afghanistan a few ignorant, religious "holy warrriors" fought against the USSR in guerilla warfare and won. This taught the rest of the world that if you hold out for long enough and play every political card you can get, no great super power can ever occupy you and win over the long haul.

The USSR, of course, was too broke to be in Afghanistan anyways and never took the nation seriously enough. Because they underestimated the tenacity of these militant sheep herders, they never sent in enough troops to deal with the problem. This is the same mistake we are making right now. Unfortunately, we are so used to being the big britches in the world, that we think we can do the same as the USSR did and get away with it.
But mostly, America's problem isn't just that it's arrogant in the way it chooses to engage the enemy, but it doesn't learn from its history and the history of the world.

After we won the revolutionary war, we had the same problems that Iraq is having now as a democracy. For at least ten years after our nation was established, a group called the torries, who were still loyal to King George of England, raided, looted, pillaged, murdered and otherwise disrupted the early American Government. It took us fourteen years for all of our original states to ratify our constitution and fifteen years to solidify to permanence the Bill of Rights. The war that we declared over was still taking casualties up until our government was firmly established and it took us a lot longer to establish our democracy than Iraq is taking to establish theirs, and we're accusing them of being lax. Wake up! Anything good has to be bought and paid for with blood sweat, tears, and the most commonly left out variable...., time.

That is what war is. War is blood, sweat, tears and time.

You can't finish a war in the same time you cook your tv dinner in the microwave. But that's what we want. As soon as things get inconvenient, we buck against our system, complain and whine that it's taking too long. We see real casualties and decide that the situation has become too real for us to handle. We have grown arrogant, weak in the heart and rubbery in the knees. As a nation, we are the most selfish, needy and demanding from all other people. And the problem is not foreign policy. The problem is us. The average everyday ordinary american. We are the cause, and as the Greeks learned in the Punic wars, it will be our own emphasis on individualism and self-serving that will lead us to self destruction. If we are ever going to be a great empire, we'll have to shift our views about war and our lazy, ignorant, arrogant and selfish individualistic ways.

We can learn a lot from Rome. Rome knew how to fight wars. Rome knew the value and importance of teamwork and Romans did something that America has been neglecting to do for years. Rome respected their foes as equal. In conquering peoples, the Romans integrated other nations into its government and gave them rights as citizens. Rome improved the living conditions everywhere they went. Ultimately, the Romans took interest and care for all the people they conquered, and that is why it took almost three hundred years for them to fall.

Could we learn to fight like them? Could we adopt a teamwork attitude? Could we understand and accept that it's going to take time to finish the things we start? Could we start caring about the democratic empire we are building and treat other nations with the respect of equals? Was it not the first document that we ever wrote that stated, "WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness..."?

That statement is our founding act of rebellion against an oppressive regime and the birth of our nation. We have lost sight of what this statement meant then and means now. It does not mean American men. It means all men! All men are created equal. That means all American and Iraqi, Afghani, Sudanese, Norwegian, French, etc. are equal! So let us learn to finish our wars in ways that afford the nations we fight better living conditions, fair and equal treatment and an elevation of status. Ultimately, if we want to fight a war, we must not do it half way. We must bloody our knuckles and do it all the way. Let us finish a war the Roman way and stick around to rebuild, integrate, improve and treat well the people we destroy. It is truly time for people to understand what it really means to fight a war!

Answer 4

I will never understand war let alone fight in one.

Answer 5

I think people in general understand what it means to fight a war. Apparently, who doesn't understand it (or doesn't care?) are politicians and the current US administration

Answer 6

I found out Vlad........when you're young....a juvenile delinquent really, ready to graduate to prison, instead of juvie hall. Ask any Company Commander he'll tell you, that recipe has the makings of a killer in less than thirty(30) days. In quieter times, I tried to make sense of it all.......I didn't, but it helped. Good question........LATER

Answer 7

Wars changes ways of life and refine it to higher civilizations and spiritual enlightment to defeat evil for ever

Answer 8

Yes it's about time people understood. It was about time a few hundred years ago.

Answer 9

No its time they learned to show Love and learn peace

Answer 10

what dose it mean?its being a coward and a cave-man brute attitude!