Is Violence ever the answer to the problem of Violence?

Question

Not really working to well in Iraq!!

But then again it was the only answer to Nazism and other Facists.

What do you think?

Answer 1

I think in many situations, you can use your head first and talk. However, violence is sometimes the only answer to violence. Look at terrorism. Its only goal is to terrorize and there is no way to make peace with it. Talking only opens you up to more terrorism. The same thing if someone broke into your home to kill you. The only response would be to attack that person first.

Answer 2

Sometimes you need to defend against violence, and that means using violence in return.
I don't know how to solve the problem of violence in Iraq. The violence would continue if we left, and we'd probably see large scale genocide. We need to concentrate on solving the underlying problems there. If large groups of people think that they and their families will be safe only if they kill off other groups, then the violence will not stop.

Answer 3

Violence is the only answer to violence because that is what the other person understands. Do not go looking to get into a fight but if someone takes a swing then you swing back harder and faster so they know that is not going to fly.

Answer 4

There are Islamic fundamentalists that want to destroy the US. They cannot be negotiated with.

More people in Iraq are killed by terrorists than by the coalition. I wouldn't hesitate to say that coalition troops are taking casualties in order to save civilian lives.

However, we're a foreign force trying to instill our foreign ideas upon people who see us as an occupying force. If I were Iraqi, I'd probably see the coalition as occupiers.

In my ideal world, the coalition wouldn't be occupiers, but supporters of an Iraqi-led rebellion to overthrow Saddam. But since that's never going to happen, I doubt that the Iraqis will come together and support and form their own government by their own volition.

Answer 5

It isn't working in iraq because that is a civil war, and the US isn't willing to crush them or even to divide them. they are trying to force them together via diplomacy, and they want to fight... the only workable solution, in my mind, is to divide the county into three parts, and forcible separate them.. like was done with germany at the end of WW2

Many times the violent will not listen to anything else but violence.

Answer 6

It depends on what the enemy's tactics are. We couldn't have stood back in World War II. Scratch that, we could have, but we could have let the Germans win, make a nuclear bomb, and destroy all of those who they believed to be inferior. Sometimes you have to fight in order to survive, Iraq isn't one of those cases. However, sometimes they do come, like World War II.

Answer 7

I believe that one of the difficulties our men and women in the Armed Forces are facing is a rather simple one.
You can not fight a war using two different sets of rules.
We have compassion and try to fight by a set of rules.
Those that we are fighting are not playing by those rules.
Wars are won by cold blooded killing of the enemy.

Answer 8

God always has and always will use violence to fight the devil and his forces of evil through their respective nations as long as mankind inhabits the Earth.

Answer 9

violence does not solve problems it gets rid of them....i think grgyssf said that

Answer 10

when evil can't be reasoned with, then what else is
there but violence?
sad that people can't be brought together through love.
but some reject it, make fun of it, ignore it.
only decency, love, hope can overcome hell. and only
the HOLY SPIRIT has that to offer.