There has never been a necessary war. Even those precipitated by the most noble of causes need never have been fought. There were always, are today, and forever will be diplomatic solutions that will preclude taking up arms and killing fellow humans.
The dilemma is that such solutions presuppose honorable intentions among the potential combatants. Unfortunately, that's rarely the case. And the reason it's so seldom true is pure and simple greed and lust for power.
Just look closely at the war in Iraq, which is only the most recent example. Every so-called justification for starting it, including all the manufactured intelligence regarding weapons of mass destruction and Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda, have evaporated. What remains is the real reason for starting it: the profit potential for the military/industrial complex including Halliburton and Blackwater.
Individual soldiers, regardless of how brave or valiant, are nothing more than pawns moved about on a cruel chessboard by the powers that be in order to extract the maximum return on investment.
Whether they die, or how they die, is inconsequential with regard to the real motives for their being in harm's way in the first place.
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"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."
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