We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
We've waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy.
We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.
Wars have economies. And I don't mean financial economies, although that's often part of it. Why do people continue fighting these wars? There are financial incentives.
If we finally chose as a country to take responsibility for the wars that we believe we must engage in, and rather than borrow money to exercise that authority to go to war, we actually pay for these wars, that would save us over a trillion dollars, because that's what we have spent in Iraq and Afghanistan - all through borrowed money.
Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.
Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.
Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
We must take the profit out of war.