War is what you do after you've missed all your choices to do the right thing.
I'm not going to argue that there is, nor never will be a reason to go to war. But after a lifetime of watching us go to war, and studying how we have gotten into so many wars over 200+ years, I'm beginning to get to the place that basically says that war happens because no one cares enough, early enough, to stop it.
WWII and Hitler happened because of the way WWI ended. WWI ended the way it did because of the way it was fought. It was fought at all because people didn't care about peace and didn't sort out all of the overlapping alliances that existed and feared each other. They feared each other because of the history behind the 100 years war and the Hapsburg wars.
The pattern you see forming here is that wars are the out growth of the previous war. You can claim that you are going to war to solve something, but it is inescapable that you are ALSO setting up the next war. Our Iraq 1 set the stage for Iraq 2 (1.1). The second version has contributed directly to the civil war that's been going on in Iraq ever since. Syria flows into its neighbors and starts wars there.
To break the pattern, one must break the cycle. Do everything one can to NOT fight the next war. One might even have to die in the effort to NOT start the next war. Instead of defending this nation with a gun, defend it with diplomacy. Die in the service to diplomacy instead of to ones comrades in arms. You might die in a consul in Bengazi or a field office in Yemen. Is that some how worse that dying bombing a wedding party in Afghanistan?
It is a presumption of our modern culture that violence can be used as a "solution" to conflict. Evidence seems to suggest that it does not resolve conflict, but tends to suppress it, until it explodes in another context.
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