I believe wars will go on one after the other... and we are staring at a few right now.... people are nationalistic in tendency....religious wars have gone on for centuries... it doesn't matter what we learn in history classes...really.....we don't learn from our mistakes....
Warmly, B
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It's the tribes, B., the tribes. Early humans banded together in tribes to survive, and at a certain.. read moreIt's the tribes, B., the tribes. Early humans banded together in tribes to survive, and at a certain point the tribes became competitive. The rest is history.
John,
I often imagine a small tribal group sitting around the fire at night, worrying about that tribe moving in on the other side of the hill, and what kinds of weapons are necessary to counter the threat they obviously pose. NO. We NEVER learn.
Vol
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Be compassionate, Vol. Those early tribes had no way of foreseeing Hiroshima.
Curious your opinion on whether a nation’s participation in war can be noble. What about its initiation of war?
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I think the allied war against fascism was noble. I also think the war against ISIS was also noble. .. read moreI think the allied war against fascism was noble. I also think the war against ISIS was also noble. Nothing is either always right or always wrong.
We never learn and there is more conflict in our world now than ever before sadly. I dread what the future may bring.
Chris
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Thanks, Chris. Had the victorious allies not imposed such a harsh peace on Germany after WW1, Hitler.. read moreThanks, Chris. Had the victorious allies not imposed such a harsh peace on Germany after WW1, Hitler might not have appealed to the German people. Of course that was not the way things went, and WW2 followed. And the present situation is just part of what went down after that great bloodletting.
Human beings never seem to learn, do they? They are so full of greed and negativity, prejudice and adverse to anything which does not line their pockets. If our beautiful world comes to an end, its destruction will have been caused by human beings, that's guaranteed. War has been our companion from history first began to be noted. It may be around after we all have gone for many, many more centuries to come. World leaders are not interested in loving people or countries only in killing them and taking over their lands. While great progress has been made in so many different ways in our lifetime, in some ways I feel we have regressed sharply. Very thought provoking write, dear J. B... Thank you for sharing...
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Thanks, Marie. With the weapons available today, the old ways of governing must be taken off the tab.. read moreThanks, Marie. With the weapons available today, the old ways of governing must be taken off the table.
As long as we think "they started it" is a valid excuse to destroy each other, then we'll keep on doing it like disgruntled bullies in the schoolyard with a chip on their shoulder the size of Wisconsin.
I don't know how big that is, but am surmising it's quite big.
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Thanks, Lorry. It has to be big to accommodate all those breweries.
growing up, i was so confident that there will never be another big war like the ones we had long before i was born. the assumption was that we humanity had learned our lesson. the assumption was that people were intellient and compassionate. okay, looks like i was wrong about that. this sad reality. these goddamn maniacs.
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Thanks, Eng. They called WW1 the war to end all wars. That prediction was somewhat off.
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