First, war is wrong for the same reasons that murder is wrong. Because war is murder.
A strategy that kills ten thousand people is not somehow less wrong than killing just one person. The colossal scale does not make it noble. The idea that countries rather than people are the “agents” is also irrelevant. Someone gave the order to go over there and start shooting, and if that person caused ten thousand people to die that’s ten thousand times as criminal as someone who caused only one person to die.
Second, war is the probably the worst possible solution to whatever problem you’re trying to solve. It’s worse than wrong, it’s idiotic.
Nothing broken can be fixed by killing people. In the future when someone suggests a war others will look away in embarrassment. And one of them will say: “I’m sorry, but that’s just stupid. Why don’t you go off and think for a while about exactly what the problem is that you’re trying to solve. When you come back, we can collaborate on ways to fix that one thing instead of breaking twelve others.”
YASHWATA 
83 mostly women and children were killed on 22.09.2013 at a church in Peshwar Pakistan. The group responsible for the 2 suicide bombers employed for the massacre have stated that they will continue to justify such actions until the USA drone killings stop.
As a late boomer american, I grew up understanding well that the Vietnam War was WRONG, the USA historical treatment of peoples rising up to change oppressive governments was/is wrong (China, Cuba, Iran, Vietnam, Chile, Argentine, El Salvidor, Morocco, Algiers, Egypt, Lybia, etc.).
The day the towers fell, it was clear to me that Shrub had a historic chance to lead the USA to turn inward, be Christian, look for understanding of why the anti-USA resentment is so prevalent in the destructed world of US foreign involvement.
What a different world it would be if we had not invaded Afhganistan, Iraq, Pakhistan ,,, and had in stead, given more support for moderates and progressives in these lands.
MORE CONVINCED THAN EVER – ALL WAR IS WRONG
Shame on the GOP –
When did killing get to be the preferred option? It’s almost always a terrible solution. The exception would be some kind of implausible “ticking bomb scenario.” In general, things like that don’t happen. There’s almost always a smarter way, but people don’t stop to figure it out. They assume that someone has to die. This is almost always false.
How do you feel about targeted killing in the consequentialists side of preventing and ending wars between non state actors?
“Not all war is wrong, if it’s for a greater good” is a tautology, and that’s a mighty big “if.” People invoke World War II because they can’t imagine how Hitler could have been defeated without widespread “sacrifice.” This is simply a failure of imagination. Do you really think there was no other way?
Consider WW2. Britain and France tried negotiating with Hitler, but in the end, all they could do was follow the policy of appeasment, and give him land. France tried negotiating with Hitler but he conquered France anyway. If no-one went to war with an unnegotiable nationalist such as Hitler, The world would be under Hitler’s control. Yes, war sacrifices a lot. However not all war is wrong, if it for a greater good.
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Why do you say the first group has to be killed to stop them from killing other people? There are probably other ways to solve this problem.
War can save lives. For example, assume one group of people who hasn’t declared war but is frequently killing people outside their group just because it is their culture to do so and because they can get away with it. Over the expanse of time, a whole lot more people will be dead if another group doesn’t kill them.
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i think you are right every one wants peace
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This is very good. “Naive” is a charge that can be directed at anyone, no matter how experienced. It doesn’t sound like an ad hominem move. It sounds sophisticated. I’ll have to remember this. Thanks for the tip.
You cannot really be this naive. You’re kidding, right?
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