You have so got to see patlabor 2 where two of the main characters have this fantastic debate about what is war and peace and whether a just war is any better then a just peace.
Interestingly enough on a slightly related note there is a big fuss in the press over here at the moment about some video footage of a friendly fire incident that took place in the war where a couple of A10 pilots attacked a British convoy. It does not upset me so much that it happened and that the pilots were so trigger happy before they realised what they had done what angers me and a lot of people over here is they way that the American military denied the tape even existed and then balled there eyes out when it got leaked. it does feel a bit of an insult to the families of the people killed.
Curious to here from you if anything is being said in the press over your side of the pond.
This is the first I've heard of it. Our left-wing press over here, in its usual back-handed egoistic way, is hammering away at the point that the war in Iraq is a totally AMERICAN war. Only AMERICANS are being killed in combat. From the majority of news coverage one can only come away with the impression that AMERICAN troops are being sent out with targets painted on their backs for the sole purpose of being killed
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I'm sure your reply was meant to provoke me. Okay I won't disappoint you. :D
"Waxing religious" eh? Think about someone saying that about another person or group of people -- 'they are nothing. They are just specks of dirt.' Sounds very much like what a dictator might say of people he was driving into gas chambers. "They are nothing. They are just specks of dirt."
If we wish to be the masters of our own destiny and not merely 'nothing but specks of dirt', then we must grasp the responsibility for solving this increasingly deadly problem as our own. Not leave it for a "posterity" that will surely curse us for our selfish indifference.
So I'll answer your question of 'why do we care what war is?' We case so that we can understand what the problem is in order to solve it.
And if you look to another Source for the solving of our problems, then I offer what President Kennedy said at the end his inaugural address back in 1961, "Here on Earth, God's work must truly be our own."
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Interestingly enough on a slightly related note there is a big fuss in the press over here at the moment about some video footage of a friendly fire incident that took place in the war where a couple of A10 pilots attacked a British convoy. It does not upset me so much that it happened and that the pilots were so trigger happy before they realised what they had done what angers me and a lot of people over here is they way that the American military denied the tape even existed and then balled there eyes out when it got leaked. it does feel a bit of an insult to the families of the people killed.
Curious to here from you if anything is being said in the press over your side of the pond.
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~Wappa
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So, again, why do we care what war is? Why do we care what peace is?
What importance are these things, why not leave them behind or for the sake of our posterity, leave the one behind and take the other forward?
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"Waxing religious" eh? Think about someone saying that about another person or group of people -- 'they are nothing. They are just specks of dirt.' Sounds very much like what a dictator might say of people he was driving into gas chambers. "They are nothing. They are just specks of dirt."
If we wish to be the masters of our own destiny and not merely 'nothing but specks of dirt', then we must grasp the responsibility for solving this increasingly deadly problem as our own. Not leave it for a "posterity" that will surely curse us for our selfish indifference.
So I'll answer your question of 'why do we care what war is?' We case so that we can understand what the problem is in order to solve it.
And if you look to another Source for the solving of our problems, then I offer what President Kennedy said at the end his inaugural address back in 1961, "Here on Earth, God's work must truly be our own."
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Often times we are too close to a problem or issue to see the real simplicity of it.
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