(January 11, 2013 at 9:20 am)A Theist Wrote: ...and in the real world, confronting force with force is usually the only option.
Since you hate weaponry and you loathe using force to solve problems, do you think Britain should have an armed military?
It is commonly accepted that one of the main reasons for the first world war was the competitive arms race, of Britain, France and Germany, that they had built up such large forces, and designed their foreign policies around this force that they were unable eventually to take any other option than to get into a conflict.
It is little talked about these days, but in the nineteen twenties, Britain and America became increasingly at odds. But the politicians of that time managed to cool down the conflict with treaties over the size of the military. Ever more powerful military cannot be shown to be in America's interests and traditionally it is something America has stood against. As such it is this belief in power which is unamerican.