is war the answer to peace?

Answer 1

If there were never war, how would we recognize peace?

Answer 2

No. Violence can never be used to solve problems; these problems stem from differences of opinion, policy, belief and so on. These belong in the mental arena, using physical force is thus not possible, you just end up suppressing the problem or its cause rather than changing it and solving the problem. With suppression, the problem resurfaces some time or the other.

So... Violence could never achieve peace. And in any case, one war sets a precedent for the next.

Answer 3

No, war is not the answer to peace
although you cannot have peace without war, its not the full answer to peace

Answer 4

Is peace the answer to war?

Answer 5

Should a Military Base be kept in a foreign country to preserve peace?
No.... ,
War only brings war

Answer 6

I got this e-mail today. This seems like an appropriate place to post it. I think it's great!





Subject: A Great Idea

Robin Williams, wearing a shirt that says "I love New York " in Arabic.
>
>You gotta love Robin Williams......Even if he's nuts! Leave it to Robin
>Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our UN
>Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message.
>
>Robin Williams' plan...(Hard to argue with this logic!)
>
>"I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for
>peace. So, here's one plan."
>
>1) "The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their
>affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo,
>Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those "good 'ole' boys", we
>will never "i nterfere" again.
>
>2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with
>Germany , South Korea , the Middle East, and the Philippines . They don't
>want us there. We would station tr oops at our borders. No one allowed
>sneaking through holes in the fence.
>
>3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave
>We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be
>gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are.
>They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.
>
>4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days
>unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be
>allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide
>here. Asylum would never be available to anyone We don't need any more cab
>drivers or 7-11 cashiers.
>
>5) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If
>they don't attend classes or if ; they get a "D" -- it's back home baby.
>
>6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-s ufficient energy wise.
>This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will
>require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou
>will have to cope for a while
>
>7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for
>their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go
>somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling
>up the storage sites would be enough.)
>
>8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will
>not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain,
>cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen
>or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if
>anything.
>
>9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need
>the spies and fair weather friends h ere. Bes ides, the building would make
>a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.
>
>10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can
>call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. The Language we speak is
>ENGLISH..learn it...or LEAVE...Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?
>
>"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying "Give me your tired, your poor,
>your huddled masses." She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want
>a piece of me?' "

I add... Americans are gangsters trying to mark their territory. This is a world were talking about. It wasn't put here to claim.

Answer 7

Not so much the answer but the hatred of peace. Ultimately the natural consequence and outworking of the conduct of whole nations and peoples. There are few ' just ' wars.

Answer 8

Well if you see peace as a problem then war would certainly be the quickest way to disrupt and destroy it...

But if you really WANT peace, war is NOT the way to get it...


"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." Albert Einstein.

Answer 9

Yes, unfortunately, the world is ruled by the aggressive use of force. Without war, major disputes would not get settled. It would be nice if there were no Hitlers, Irans and Hezbollahs in the world, but sometimes one has to confront the forces that want you dead or want what you have.

Answer 10

In English class, a great many years ago, we had to state a truism, one sentence, no more.

Mine was "War is Peace"! This was during the height of the Viet Nam war, if one can call it that!

While the writer was not known by the rest of the class, we were allowed to answer our thoughts about the statements! I received zero votes of confidence. Everyone in the class thought the writer was a maniac! I was deeply saddened!

Years later, I read George Orwell's "1984" - and in the 1st chapter I read ...

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Who am I to argue with George???

Read the book!

The Ol' Sasquatch Ü