Opinion of "Give War a Chance"

[Lief 🗽]

Well, what he's saying is true, I guess. Genocide also brings peace. As does nuclear war. Don't mean they're good things. And as Xahar pointed out, it took western Europe over a millennium before they got war "out of their system". Are we to let third world countries kill each for a thousand years while we sit idly by? I think that, as we have the means to do so, we should do what we can to alleviate some small amount of death and suffering in the world, as long as we are able to do so in a successful manner (i.e. not Iraq). Obviously this doesn't mean Wilsonian/Bushian nation-building or whatever, but it doesn't mean that we should ignore genocides and wars that we can prevent.