is war good for children?

Question

one person claimed the losers of wwii were isolationists. one person claimed england was not an isolationist because they sent troops to france. they sent men. they did not send planes. they saved their planes to defeat germany OVER england. by isolating they saved their resources. if a powerful and agressive enemy is SO menacing that a response is the only possible answer, then it could be correct. the 9-11 attack killed thousands. the "ENEMY"??????????has been paid back a hundred fold by now. ask the enemy or outside peoples of the world who in their opinion is the aggressor. as world opinion of the united states diminishes, foolish and excessive warfare is the tragedy we all witness.

Answer 1

First, war isn't good for anyone. This only teaches children prejudice, hate, and violence which is never a positive influence. Second, I could care less how many "terrorists" we kill in the middle east. It still doesn't change the fact that the US has killed more civilians in this war than the terrorist attacks during 9/11 and the fact that people refuse to believe we have terrorists in our own country. Look at Theodore Kaczynski and in 1975 a Ruerto Rican nationalist group bombed the Fraunces Tavern in New York. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were responsible for the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995. These are but a few examples that actually make it to the media. With all the troops we have sent overseas we've made our own country vulnerable by leaving no defense. We can't stop every terrorist no matter how hard we try but we can fight it within our own country and prevent it from coming or leaving our country and set an example for other countries to follow. However, at this rate we are loosing allies so fast I doubt anyone is looking to the US as an example. Yes, this country is great but it is still young and arrogant and as much as people want to believe we are not invincible and 9/11 proved that.

Answer 2

Actually we sent (at a minimum, and to the best of my knowledge) No.14 group and posted them to France with the air component of the BEF. I believe using westland lysanders used for army co-operation duties. We were'nt isolationists during the war either we had to import most of what we needed, hence the very real u-boat threat which nearly turned the tide of war. No, the US aren't the 'evil' aggressor you make them out to be. Let them slam a plane into your buildings and kill thousands of innocent people (not forgetting the knock on effect of such actions) and see how you react, from my point of view they were quite restrained in their response and slow moving. I would have personally pushed the button to nuke every arab country just to make sure we didn't miss any 'terrorists'
Make sure you read a history book, I mean a real one, so you actually understand how stupid you sound when you rant about things of which you only have a passing knowledge.
Oh, and the losers of WW2, were the Germans.

Answer 3

How does this information support your question? Anyway to answer it and some of your other remarks I'll do my best.

War is a hard concept for children to grasp. I know my nieces had difficulty with it when my fiancee left for Iraq. But they sent him letters and colored him pictures and bought him candy and things. In some ways it was a positive experience for them because it taught them a little about geography, and the area in Iraq. The down side is they did get scared and confused.

As for the rest of your comments....this isn't about pay back. This is about protecting our freedom and our way of life. Terrorists are like wild animals and the only way to stop them is to kill them. If we don't go out to find them where they are they will come here again. The way we have to go about protecting our freedom is distasteful, but freedom comes at a price. It's not free. You are thinking that the Muslim religion as a whole is the enemy and it's not. Muslims are actually peaceful. Terrorists twist the Koran to mean what they want it to and use it to manipulate people. We are not going after the Muslim religion, we are going after the sick, twisted people who twist it into something it is not.

Answer 4

I get what you are saying. You are saying that a country's resources are often better spent on "defense" rather than on engaging in acts of aggression that may or may NOT bear the fruit of peace. I think your argument is valid.
No sane person can dispute the fact that much of the world does indeed see us as the "aggressors". Our actions were based on "faulty intelligence" or as much of the world sees it "lies".
We could argue the point until "rapture" and never agree either with the rest of the world or even ourselves.
It has always been my humble opinion that we had no business "messing around" in that "hood". Not until we had properly dealt with the true and undisputed enemy. We still have not done that.

Answer 5

Great Britain did send RAF squadrons to France and Belgium after the German invasion on May 10, 1940. The remaining units escaped the continent much easier than the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) because they could fly back to England.

Answer 6

If you strike America down, America shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine

This is not an "eye for an eye" situation, it's a "we don't want to be attacked so we're going to ensure it by wiping every last terrorist off the face of the Earth" situation, will it work, time will only tell

Answer 7

They must not have under stood your misguided and utterly nonsensical statement at the New York Times either so you had to publish it here. Some people should never get of there med's

Answer 8

No war is not good for children, however, it is even worse for the children that have parents that are overseas for 18 months fighting to defend our great nation and the Constitution.

Answer 9

war is simply not good for anyone.certainly some world superpower want to show its prowess by attacking others country that rich of resource they want and children definitely suffering from it.

Answer 10

This was a rather long winded and incoherent rant.

And extraneous punctuation looks retarded. For example!!!!!!!!!!