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Originally Posted by zerodown
And then a new war will sprout somewhere on the globe, and so on and so on for another millennium or two.
Its been almost 9 years of war on iraq, and we're still sending troops, hell we don't even have the power to close guantanamo at the will of the president, it keeps being stalled.
I don't think war around the globe will stop any time soon when the world's best scientists are trying to come up with better and stronger weapons with which to dominate other countries, sorry I meant with which to defend from other countries.
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all that is true but the fact remains that after 9 years we have not entered any new conflicts despite being heavily inundated in a constant stream of fear-filled propaganda and war-mongering. the world no longer accepts war as a justifiable means toward anything and the war methodology is proving more troublesome than anything. iraq/afghanistan have nearly (or completely, depending on how you want to look at it) bankrupted our nation while providing absolutely no benefit for security or anything else.
at the end of the day survival trumps everything and war is simply not suited to survival (duh). it disrupts the international commerce every country depends on not only for its survival, but also for its continued development. we've kind of just blundered into this peace-regulating circumstance through our species' age-old thirst for blood and profit, but the truth is that, however we arrived, there's no moving forward the same way we got here. it simply cannot be sustained. the apprehension of the warmongers these last 9 years would be unthinkable if it were possible for war plans to move forward. therefor in my estimation, it no longer is