Assignment 9

War is very complex issue that I have a hard time really making my mind up about about. Of course, war is never a good thing. Nothing that results in so much loss of life can be. But is it ever necessary? That is debatable. When people want freedom, which I'm sure we can all agree is a virtue, it often results in war, so the outcome of war is typically good. It can, however, often be reached in a different way. For example, I'm sure we can all agree that the outcome of the Civil War was a good thing. Slaves needed to be freed. Slavery had been debated for a long time before this, though, and an agreement could've been reached peacefully if James Buchanan hadn't have been a huge idiot and just sat around while threats of secession lingered. War can have a good outcome, but it is almost always avoidable. I think America has certainly become a war-hungry country. We involved ourselves in other country's business when we should just stay out. It's made us many more enemies than allies, and in the end, has accomplished very little. Is Afghanistan really any better now than when we first entered it? Not really. America has declared itself world police, and since then, war has become almost entirely unnecessary, at least to our country.