War, does it work?

Question

I don't think so. It is so difficult to learn democracy, it's a matter of culture and history.

Answer 1

Talking works more than war does

Answer 2

As a matter of fact, It is one of the best solutions to conflict that Man has found.
I know that statement sounds silly, but think about it/research it.
From the time man first started recording history, to today....

It has worked in the past, it will continue to work in the future.

In virtually all conflicts, the dispute is NEVER settled (for the long term) with diplomacy alone. War, decisive war, is the only (Long Term) solution.
For only when one side looses the ability, or the will to continue the fight, will the conflict truly end.
Diplomacy only prolongs the inevitable onset of war.....

To think otherwise is just foolish....and we all know what happens to those who choose to ignore the lessons that history teaches us.........

This is why the U.N. is so ineffective. It/they can pontificate, and pass resolutions....Give speeches, and talk about how to fix the troubles of the world...but without anything to (Physically) back them up, along with the will to use it effectivly.....well, You get what we have in the U.N.'s actions today.....Lots of talk...very little effect.

War is effective. Brutal, Animistic, and a Huge waster of resorces.....But VERY effective..... One side wins, One side looses......The winners decide what comes next.

So it has been in the past......So it will be in the future.

Answer 3

When you say that you don't think war works, what is that supposed to mean? To achieve what? It work pretty well at stopping the National Socialists and Imperial Japan. It requires a level of commitment to do violence that is difficult to attain when (in a democracy) the populace doesn't see themselves as imminently threatened.

Answer 4

War doesn't work half as well as increasing education and reducing poverty. Reducing poverty has to come first, since it's hard to learn on an empty sotmach. The richer naitons around the world all have these two things in common: a higher level of national education and a higher standard of living. Well educated people solve their differences with words of understanding not violence. I guess that speaks volumes about your current President and his band of merry men.

Answer 5

Of course war works, the history of our civilization was based on a series of wars.

Answer 6

War works quite well. And remember there would be NO DEMOCRACY if people were not willing to fight for it. Would you like to be living under Adolf Hitler's rule? Or would you like to be sent to a Soviet Gulag because you opposed the Commissars decisions?

You have freedom to belittle U S fighting men and women BECAUSE they went to War to protect your ungrateful stupid
(a)ss.

Answer 7

War works just fine. You haven't heard anything from Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy lately, have you?

Answer 8

I think compelling someone to be democratic is very difficult. It requires a long term commitment by the conqueror. The American people are not willing to make the commitment.

Answer 9

War may not work, but peace seems to work even less. The greatest technological advances of civilization has come about (directly or indirectly) because of armed struggle. None sadly, through peace...

Answer 10

"America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat. "

James Madison, Federalist No. 14, November 30, 1787