Assignment 9

As Americans, many of us do not know what war truly is. To know war is to live in it. Even those who risk their lives overseas to fight for us do not know war as other people do. Guns, tanks, nukes, turrets: this is not war. War would happen whether bullets were buried under human skin or not. War happens when compromise cannot be seen. When men in big chairs agree to disagree. This is when the people suffer. War has subcatagories of injustices: genocide, murder, slander, hunger, disease, death..
But war is sadly a necessary evil. The technology of the modern world has been created by war. Our ideas on international law were formed by the likes of the Thirty Years War. The freedoms handed down to us by the Ancient Greeks had to be defended from tyrants and dictators from the Persian Empire by force of arms. Even in the 20th and 21st century, war has the power to change society. Whether it was destroying the old Victorian society in the fires of the First World War or encouraging ideas of equality and the end of European empires in the Second World War. War has this simplistic honesty, one only seen by the glint of metal and blood of man. Without it, society would be run by subliminal leaders, something which may scare me more than the deaths of thousands.