Are you pro or anti-war? Why?

Answer 1

I seriously doubt very many people are pro-war. War is always the last option but sometimes necessary.......

Answer 2

Neither. It's not like I wake up, roll over, and think "gee, who should we bomb today?" But, as a prior service member and a military wife, I'm in FULL support of our military and their objectives.

I remember in the days after 9-11 nearly the whole country was united in agreement about some sort of retaliation. Now that we've been bombarded by the media's spin on things, suddenly people see the pictures of war and want to back up and pretend they were never cheerleaders.

War is ugly and that's never been a secret. But, in this day and age of technology and unscrupulous reporting we see the effects of the bomb du jour and most stare in morbid curiosity and then reach a point of outrage. They were brainwashed without even realizing it. That's why there was never such a division during any other war, because the media wasn't cherry picking broadcasts live from the front lines.

War is sometimes necessary to prevent evil. We can't stand by and watch mass genocide and do nothing. We can't stand idly by as we lose thousands of our OWN family members and say "c'est la vie." Islam has declared war on US. What part of this do people NOT understand?

Answer 3

As a retired USAF pilot and officer, I am extremely anti-war. But if I called upon again by the Commander-In-Chief, the President, to go to war I would have willingly given my life in support of my country. War is a terrible thing. It is legalized murder and mayhem, but sometimes it is necessary.

World War ll was only necessary because of the Armistice ending World War I. If that Armistice would have been fair to Germany, there would have never been a Hitler. The Korean war was necessary because of the North Koreans and the Chinese invaded the South. Viet Nam was unfortunately necessary because of the spread of Russian Communism. The first gulf war was necessary because the Iraqi's invaded Kuwait. This Iraqi war was necessary because Saddam threatened the world with weapons of mass destruction (I know he did not have them now). We had to dispose him. Now we have to reform a country.

Yes I was anti-War then because I would have been the first in battle. I am still anti-War because young people get hurt and die. But I still and always believe that war is inevitable.

Answer 4

I'm pro-war on general principle. Force is the ultimate resort in resolving any dispute, and no amount of ethics or morality changes that, they only serve to mask it.

In spite of that, I can object to a specific war if it's particularly poorly-conducted. Iraq being a solid example.

Answer 5

Depends on the war and why, but I was in the military and when I was called I went. I totally disagree with the Iraq war, but I agreed with the first gulf war and many others.

Answer 6

Up to now I haven't seen any solution that was consequence of a war. The only consequences of wars are pain, death, sadness, tear, rape, lack of respect...
So, I'm anti-war, in spite of knowing that, depending on the circunstances, sometimes they are unavoidable.

Answer 7

I am pro war when necessary. What we are doing in Iraq is not war. It is trying to develop a democracy for people that don't want one.

Answer 8

I think all people are anti-war. It should always be a last resort.

If it's to defend our country from a tangible, imminent threat, after all other options have be exhausted, then I would agree it is necessary.

But I will always be against war when it is based on false information, and for the sole benefit of the Military Industrial Complex.

Answer 9

Our society is obsessed with war. We wage war on just about everything. We name domestic public policy campaigns as "The war on...." hunger, poverty, crime, pollution, terror, fat, etc. In our foreign policy, we wage violent and deadly wars of choice, convenience, and imperialism. Our schools have long been a battleground in the war on (some) drugs. Both good and bad tactics have been used for decades in schools, from 70's "rap sessions", to "Scared Straight" tours of cons and ex-cons as motivational speakers, to DARE, to Health classes, to those driver education movies that dramatize the prior events and then show real police film footage of the car crashes. The current surveillance which includes drug-sniffing dogs is yet another tactic in the war on drugs, which, unlike those previous mentioned, are explicitly not educational and explicitly not about respecting students. Quite the contrary.

With each new domestic war waged, there comes a restructuring of the established order. On the battlefield of the school, we can expect a shift in the established academic climate. Will it be toward more resentment and (hopefully) rebellion as the police state further encroaches into the school, or toward less resentment as the school culture sheepily and sleepily assumes the notion that a militarized school culture is a good thing? Control, discipline, morality, safety...these are the buzzwords by which fascisms are sold to society.

Answer 10

I am neither pro nor anti war. I am anti evil. We either oppose evil or we enable it.

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