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kpete

(71,984 posts) Wed Mar 20, 2013, 07:35 PM Mar 2013

Wars Are Bad

Wars Are Bad.

And if for some reason the people who run the United States feel the need to start one, it means they've failed. It means they should all resign in shame and let someone else clean up their mess. This country has immense power - military, economic, political - and if you can't use the latter two, along with the implicit threat of the first one, to make war unnecessary then you've fucked up and it's time to go home.

by Atrios at 17:33
http://www.eschatonblog.com/2013/03/wars-are-bad.html

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Wars Are Bad (Original Post) kpete Mar 2013 OP

Those who start wars seldom directly participate even though they seek economic benefit. gordianot Mar 2013 #1

Mmmmmmmmmmkay slackmaster Mar 2013 #2

The human race has been doing it forever Lurks Often Mar 2013 #3

gordianot

(15,237 posts)

1. Those who start wars seldom directly participate even though they seek economic benefit.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Mar 20, 2013, 07:44 PM

Mar 2013

Helen of Troy just would not make it any more.

slackmaster

(60,567 posts)

2. Mmmmmmmmmmkay

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Mar 20, 2013, 07:46 PM

Mar 2013

Lurks Often

(5,455 posts)

3. The human race has been doing it forever

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Mar 20, 2013, 07:58 PM

Mar 2013

I went back to 1750 before I got bored and could not find ONE year where humans were not fighting a war somewhere and history prior to 1750 was hardly any less violent

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