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I bet I look really terrible after this post XD.
Not really, I can see where you're coming from, and actually sorta agree.
Anyway, about the 'war' in Iraq...
First off: I don't approve of it, I wouldn't have went in like this in the first place, that is, if I controlled the army.
But, since we are there, I see two possible ways to end the conflict. 1: Leave. For multiple reasons, I wouldn't do that in this situation. Moral reasons, like, the people want to be free an' crap and they can't be unless we 'protect' them...Politcal reasons, like, it would look pretty bad if we go in and leave after being 'beaten' by a bunch of ...err... 'ragtag' rebels.
Or, option 2: Shoot everyone. Civilians "might" be a threat? Assume they are. You can't walk around through a community asking people if they're terrorists and then them pulling an ak-47 out and shooting you after you walk by and tell them to have fun farming. We picked option 3:
3: Attempt to 'liberate' and uhh sit there for 40 years and 're-educate' people, set up a government, etc etc...Same thing that we did after WWII in Germany and Japan. Except, back then, the people of the United States believed we were right. Now, the next president, if Bush doesn't, will pull our troops out "before the job is done", and there will be no serious result.
I would have just blown their asses up. Is every Middle-Easterner a terrorist? No. Is this overly harsh? Yes. Are the people there innocent civilians? In my opinion, no. Even the ones who
Don't try to kill you. They're learning in their own schools, their own churches, and their society portrays the United States of America as evil. So even the people that won't kill you now will still hate America, will have kids that hate America, teach people to hate America, and eventually be the ones drafted into an Iraqi resistance against you if you don't start teaching them differently.
Manipulation? Yes. Does it happen here and everywhere else anyway? Yes. I go to a New York school, with teachers who have degrees from New York schools, who teach me all the same bullcrap, and when my parents know about things that are taught completely differently to me today, I really start to wonder what the truth is, so, the point of me saying that was just the fact that our country does it to our own kids as well. Does it make it right? No. But it happens anyway, so why not do it to them as well?
Anyway, point was, Kill everyone or kill noone. Or actually do an operation like this successfully, take out the leaders, set up your crap and stay there, let them know how much you rule. Give the guy a washing machine, clothes, an air conditioner, plumbing, electrical power, and they'll realize "Hm, actually having luxury instead of living in a shack is kinda cool." Then they start to like you, maybe the countries become good friends.
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Sorry for writing some giant freaking essay about that crap. If you read that, thanks for listening, and note how my opinions are kinda freaked up and warped, sorry. Lol. Anyway, I didn't address the other question...ending war in general.
Not possible. Maybe through generations of brainwashing, then
maybe you can make that part of human nature submit to the utopian society in which we would be living. But war is human nature, as previously said. Envy is human nature. Envy leads to wars. One guy has something the other guy wants, and the first guy won't share, or can't share, and they're forced to fight over it. If it was something as easy as, say, someone needs place to stay, you can offer them a spare bunk. However, if it's something like water...and you just don't have enough go around, then it's an issue. It's either one person accepts they die for the group...or they fight over it and try to save themselves. Second one is more likely. I doubt that war will ever completely stop, or that the 'nations' of the world will ever work together as the planet earth as instead of however the freak many countries we have all vying for themselves...