A lot of the peace protesters in the good ol' USA, are quite fond of this slogan.
War is a last resort. And it does and has solved many problems before. For example:
1.) Think of the 12 million Hitler had executed in his death camps. If like minded countries had not had the gumption to fight off this menace, how many more would have died?
2.) Look at Hiroshima/Nagasaki. A dreadful, fate, but it ended up breaking the back of the Japanese warmongers and forcing peace. I am quite sure that occupied Korea and China were happy for that day. The Japanese were brutal & evil conquerors. Look up "The Rape of Nanking", or read the book, "Ghost Soldiers" which tells of the American soldiers who were POWS underneath the Japanese. I am sorry any innocent person died when we bombed those cities, but it saved a shitload of Jap & American lives who would have perished, had the US invaded, which it was going to do.
3.) The American Civil War. A war of liberation to end slavery. What more noble cause can there be?
I am not a warmonger, but I am a realist.
I have absorbed the lessons of history; war is evil, but there are worse things.
And JohnnyCzech, you above all should be sensitive to this argument. If the French & British had BALLS, Hitler could never have dismembered Czechoslovakia like he did in '38, which paved the way for his further aggresion, and the start of World War II.
I believe we face a similar menace today, with rogue Dictatorial states (Iraq & North Korea) who would similarly launch foreign "adventures" to create chaos and improve there standings and force hegemony in there regions. Iraq has done this before in 1990, and North Korea in 1950.
Besides the fact that Iraq has used chemical weapons on its own citizens and against Iranian troops during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88.
Iraq has flouted the UN mandates for 12 years, and it is time for them to give a full account of there weapons program, which the UN INSPECTORS ARE SAYING HAS NOT HAPPENED!
If the rest of the world, with the exception of the UK and Australia, are scared of this menace, step aside!! America has had the gloves off since September 11, 2001.
And I say it is high time to come out swinging!
America is pissed!! Believe it!! Some may have already let those 3000 who died fade from memory, but not all of us!
If this happened to your country, what would you do?