(January 2, 2015 at 8:04 am)FreeTony Wrote: My personal feeling is that almost all war is advoidable and utterly pointless, and that the term "just" is pretty meaningless in terms of a war. If every time someone does something to you, your first response is to retaliate with force, then society would collapse. It also doesn't fit in to the "love thy neighbour" liberal Jesus philsophy. Not that right wing Americans would accept this, as they probably think that Jesus would have shot first and asked questions later.
We are utterly guilty of what Thucydides was talking about.
Quote:"It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter."
