Katie Demetriades Assignment 9: What is it good for?

I have never had much of an opinion on war. Because whether or not I like it, it's here to stay. Look at how much we support our troops and praise them for their work, which is well deserved. However, the cause they fight for isn't always just. I find the only time for war is when oppression is being fought. Revolutions against a powerful tyranny brings real results. Fighting between two nations brings too much destruction for the results to even matter. So in general, I am not a supporter of war. The few circumstances where war is justified are rare. Minus in the Middle East, I do not know of anywhere else in the world where civil war is occurring. So, that means less war should be happening in the world overall.

As we all know, the US is always the one to get involved in wars we originally had nothing to do with. Because we have our wallets open hoping to find natural resources we can make big bucks off of. Why do you think we're still in the Middle East? Because we love oil. I only find it just for us, or any other nation, to intervene in war when something inhumane is being committed. The mass slaughtering of innocent people is a good example. But other than that, war intervention is not the responsibility of any nation. It more than likely will only make matters worse.

I feel like throughout history, humans have tried to find an alternative to war. By talking issues out and creating compromises or avoiding contact with the opposite side all together. But because these alternatives are not always effective, we silently agreed that war was the way to find a solution in foreign disagreements. Although alternatives exist that we have yet to try, national leaders are so unwilling to try it because they don't know for sure if they work. I doubt we'll ever know.