War has been a part of the human race from the very beginning. Every nation and every tribe of human beings that has ever existed has waged war against its neighbors and every great civlization that the human race has ever produced was created through war, maintained through war, and eventually they are undone by war making room for new civilizations to arise in their place. Throughout this, the human race has not only survived but thrived. The cycle of war and rebuilding keeps our species vital and evolving; we are a better species for our history of warfare and it is by warfare that our species will continue to improve in the future.
We have been killing, raping and screwing things up since the very beginning, doesn't make it right.
I accept your a fascist (not a diss, you actually are) and hence are expected to hold these views, but to promote war even if it is uncalled for is worrying. It isn't healthy.
Empires have thrived under war, yes, but that was during the colonial days, the days of Empires. And its precisely the toll on human resources, the horrors war creates and the grief it spreads that has made that age come to pass.
Japan is a pacifist country and has thrived. There is no evidence to suggest the human race requires war for survival. Our early history and the creation of new civilizations cannot be compared to the modern world. Our species are the human race, and it does not benefit from war.
Unprovoked war is the residue of greed, and greed is the cancer of our species.
Thus it cannot be healthy.
When the time comes the world's resources are finishing, we will go to space. We do need war for survival. The wars in the ME have not strengthened or revitalized the American people.
Our early history was very different. Technology and living standards where primitive, and it was constant war, expansion of land and resources that created the expansion of knowledge and human capability. It made civilizations that built towns and cities to support our species and vitalize our existence as human beings on the top of the food chain. Today's world everything is handed on a silver platter.
It is not war that makes our species prosper today, it is science and national pride.
I know the horror and grief of warfare as well as any man who has never been in a warzone can. I have lost family and friends in war. I have seen disabled veterans and photographs of the children maimed and killed in warzones. And contrary to what many people believe, I do value human life. But in this, like in all things, I see things in terms of the long term and the big picture. Blood makes the grass grow and guts make the grass green. War is a necessary part of the course of human development.
I simply disagree, since there is no evidence to support this view.