"What's your favorite war?"

[SocialistLez]

THAT is the title of a display at the local public library.

Maybe I'm thin-skinned or I have a weak stomach but it just pisses me off.

Who the fu** has a FAVORITE war? Who LIKES war?!?

[Shell Beau]

1. Bad choice of words. I wonder if that is what they really intended to mean.

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[raccoon]

2. Maybe "most interesting war" is what they meant, but I agree,

favorite is an odd word to use.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. The WAR on HATE!

:cry:

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[Turbineguy]

4. Everything is a War these days.

[harun]

35. Everyone in U.S. culture is conditioned to think modern warfare is the

solution to the worlds problems. So their marketing uses that conditioned outlook hence everything they want to push is a "war", and should be supported.

[CTyankee]

5. Peloponnesian. Hands down.

nt

[RaleighNCDUer]

14. I've always favored the Punic wars.

They had elephants.

[CTyankee]

16. Hard to do a "re-enactment" of that...

nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

19. Peloponnesian War and this why

The Peloponnesian War, 431 to 404 B.C., was an ancient Greek war, fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League.... It was at Athens greatest height and arrogance where the term came pride commeth before the fall

Athens lost its Democracy and influence from its oversea imperialism and arrogance
but now Thucydides has come still closer to us so that now he speaks to our ear.

[CTyankee]

25. Right answer. This was pointed out back when Bush started the Iraq War

to "spread democracy." Many scholars pointed out that this was exactly what the Athenian League "said" was its goal in invading Sicily. Indeed, Thucydides himself warns future generations against this folly in the opening paragraphs of "The History of the Peloponnesian War." And since Athens lost its democracy and its empire we should pay heed...

[Ichingcarpenter]

27. I wrote something on DU about this years ago

in an OP with details, documents and quotes comparing it to the US folly.

I have to think,
in order to live,
an examined life .....LOL ......

But to think
That that Democracy
killed Socrates at that time
right after building the Parthenon

makes one examine that too.


Yes, we are on the same page, you and I
There is no other prolonged war that compares in history
to this Marathon of Spartan thought of observation on the
Synchronicity of two events in time occurring together in a meaningful manner.

[CTyankee]

28. Well, I guess we must be a dying breed to see this synchronicity.

What happened and what happens...it is a curse, I feel sometimes. We know and dread what is coming but it coms and here we are! It is a terrible curse...sometimes I wish I were just plain ignorant...

[Journeyman]

6. Well, this would be the Very Best . . .

but I've never really been a big fan. . .

[Make7]

7. War on Christmas? ( n/t )

[Bigmack]

8. I'm a regular at our library...

and I would start slow and build to loud and demanding.

"Change the title".

I would explain that wars are failures in so many ways. Wars mean death... for winners and losers. It means suffering and destruction.

No war can be a favorite.

Tell them at the library.

[SocialistLez]

12. I plan to write them about it

They mainly have books about World War I and II.

[PinkFloyd]

9. War really means now is never-ending crusade

In a war you fight to defeat an enemy and then that's it.

What we have now are never-ending crusades to defeat an idea(s) that never ends.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

10. Revolutionary War?

[rurallib]

11. The one that was avoided by statesmanship

right now so far, Iran War.

[EFerrari]

13. It's indoctrination. Geeze.

What about the War of the Theaters?

The War of the Theatres is the name commonly applied to a controversy from the later Elizabethan theatre; Thomas Dekker termed it the Poetomachia.

Because of an actual ban on satire in prose and verse publications in 1599 (the so-called Bishops' Ban), the satirical urge had no other remaining outlet than the stage. The resulting controversy, which unfolded between 1599 and 1602, involved the playwright Ben Jonson on one side, and his rivals John Marston and Thomas Dekker (with Thomas Middleton as an ancillary combatant) on the other. The role Shakespeare played in the conflict, if any, has long been a topic of dispute among scholars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Theatres

[Union Yes]

15. When the poor fought back and began unionizing in the 1930's.

It's only class warfare when then poor fight back.

[Wickerman]

17. The War on Poverty?

:shrug:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

18. The one I'm currently engaged in on Civ IV.

It's about time I purged Hirohito of the Ottoman Empire from West Africa once and for all.

[RaleighNCDUer]

20. Don't you just love the historical mash ups you can get like that? nt

[OHdem10]

21. World War II is considered the"good war". Morally justified and the

Democracy was preserved over Nazism.

[Rex]

22. My favorite war was the one where no one showed up and stayed

home with their families instead.

[Taverner]

23. The one that went BLAM! BOOM! BANG! RRRRRROOOOAR!! BOOM! BOOM BOOM!

Yeah, that one.

[meow2u3]

24. I'd say WWII--despite my uncle's being murdered by the Nazis

The Axis powers really were hellbent on supplanting world democracies into dictatorships; therefore, WWII was a true war of necessity, declared and all.

That's how come it burns me up to see some teabaggers who call themselves "patriotic Americans" wish for a dictatorship at home :grr:

[Incitatus]

26. The War on Drugs

:hide:

[karynnj]

29. Any of the ones avoided, through diplomacy - that,, because they didn't happen, have no name

[Motown_Johnny]

30. "The War To End All Wars", no wait... the one after that..or was it the one after that one?

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[era veteran]

34. Edwin Starr

He burns it up. Good God ya'll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8C4AIFgUg

[HopeHoops]

36. None - that's the best kind.

[hobbit709]

37. The Pig War

http://www.nps.gov/archive/sajh/Pig_War_new.htm

[pipi_k]

38. Ballero

:)

[BoWanZi]

39. WW2 or the Civil War. (nt)

x

[SidDithers]

40. Edwin Starr...nt

Sid