For someone like myself, who fought in World War II, and since then has protested against war, I must ask: Have our political leaders gone mad? Have they learned nothing from recent history? Have they not learned that no one "wins" in a war, but that hundreds of thousands of humans die, most of them civilians, many of them children? Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
We have an entire twentieth of wars as horrible examples. WWI was one of historys great disasters and wiped out an entire male generation. WWII killed over sixty million people worldwide and set the world off on a different, much more dangerous course. But the human condition has a peculiar trait: the ability to ignore what came before coupled with the ability to determine that this time the situation is different, and thus is winnable. Those who fight in wars understand the horror and cannot comprehand why anyone would start one. But wars are started by politicians far removed from the real world. Politicians who never fight warsfighting and dying are reserved for our young.
