War

[Bill Richter]

I can solve the slavery discussion--I simply shoot you. My view wins. That is war.

War solves problems, albeit while creating others. We go to war because we cannot compromise certain ideas or principles or because we want someone's land (or whatever) or they want ours. It is nice to see us as reasonable, but reason lasts only so long as one can compromise. Those boys fought not because they could or could not vote, but because their representatives the Elite, the Man) called on them to aid their country and they came.

We should also remember that with the possible exception of WW II there has always been those who opposed war and refused to go. What was it John Adams said about the Am Revol? One third for, one third against, one third didn't care one way or the other. US Grant may have disliked the Mexican War but he served.

Until you have been there war is the greatest adventure humans have ever known. Read Henry V's speech on St Crispin's day to his men. He, interpreted by Wm Shakespeare, knew what it was all about. So did George Patton , See the opening scenes of the movie, Patton.War in the 1800s was an honorable thing--the profession of arms, they called it.

One opposed to war can only hope that the Hippies of the 1960s ultimately prove prescient: What if they gave a war and nobody came? History says: Fat Chance!