Assignment 9- Julian Perry

In a perfect world, everyone would get along. In a perfect world, we wouldn't need war. We don't live in a perfect world. When a world such as ours grows at such an immense rate, conflicting interests arise. The ideal response to this unideal situation would be to negotiate and come to an agreement of mutual understanding, but things aren't always ideal in this imperfect world. Never meaning to say war is a "need," I now beg the question of whether or not war is avoidable. Certainly, two intelligent human beings can come to a nonviolent solution to a conflict... Right? We've lived and died for thousands of years believing that strength is one of the most important values, and so today when two nations disagree, war is the solution. It is the wrong solution, but it is still a solution. In Nazi Germany, the poor citizens needed help. Hitler started a war trying to bring his country out of poverty, but helped no one in the end. World War I had a very similar end: one of zero accomplishment. War never really solves anything, it's just a quick fix. Desperate times do call for desperate measures, as they say. In a desperate situation, when someone is in need of assistance, sure a nation might wage war to provide. It won't, however, bring salvation. Peace breeds betterment, war welcomes destruction. A formal discussion over any matter can bring out mutual interest in the end, but hey, war is just easier for some people.