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Originally Posted by Rekna
Here is a question for everyone. If war has not been successfull to bring peace the the middle east for 2000 years what makes you think it will be successful now? Every crusade was a dismal failure that only made things worse. Doesn't anyone see that you can't get rid of hate by using hate? There is only one thing that can stop hatred. Ghandi and MLK jr both knew this. So why can't we learn this?
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It takes but one foe to start a war, and those that do not have swords can still die upon them. As long as there is still evil in the world (yes, I am one of those people that believes in a black and white) then there will be a continuing of wars, genocide, murders, rapes. Your pacifism is admirable, and granted, if everyone were like you, then there wouldn't be a need for nuclear weapons, territories, or governments. But mankind is not perfect, he requires governance and policing. The same thing could have been said about Europe before World War II. Starting with Rome and its conquests, then the uprisings by the Gauls, the Saxons, the Vandals, the Mongols, the Huns, etc. The fracturing of an Empire. The rise of the Merovingians and the Carolingians. The Franks striking out towards the East. The centuries long sacking of Byzantium before it fell in the late 15th Century. The Hundred Years War. The Napoleonic Wars. The Franco-Prussian War. World War I. World War II. The Cold War. This cycle of war and massacre occurred for nearly two thousand years, before some semblance of stability formed in Europe. Now democracy flourishes in states that were under the oppression of the USSR. Russia now looks as if it may returning to communism and to the old ways. I weep for them because oppression is against human nature and I pray that democracy flourishes in Russia before it is killed at the root. Just because it has not been successful before that we must not try and remove the despotism and tyrrany that oppresses these people daily. Call me an idealist, but I truly believe in the power of resistance to tyrants.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."~Thomas Jefferson