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In 2015, Why Do We Still Fight?

Posted on 3 December 2015 by The Tactical Hermit

Portrait of american soldier resting from military operation

Why fight wars at all?  We lose lives and treasure even if we win.  Those who survive are haunted by the violence and the price they paid; whether they were drafted or volunteered every one of them offered up their lives for an ideal.

War is a bloody, terrible business.  Military personnel are trained to kill their opponents and destroy their materials of war whatever those materials may be. Cities are turned to rubble and bodies lay scattered about indiscriminately in the wrack and ruin of the battlefield.  Millions have died friend, foe, and the innocent because they were ground to dust between the two.

War is terrible.  But being against war for the sake of the terror of it alone while enjoying the luxuries that war has brought you makes you a fool of the first order.  If we know all of this, why do we still fight?

War Typography Grunge Style DesignBeing against war is a convenience.  Freedom of speech and religion is a luxury.  It might surprise you to view it that way but it is true.  You can list major and minor nations around the world where speaking your mind or worshiping in any but the approved fashion will get you killed by the government.

Had we not fought the first war of our nation, we would have no nation as we see it today.  The British Empire might not have fallen; the nation of America might never have risen at all.  But go further than that.  Would there have been a Rome without war?

If you don’t believe in something strongly enough to fight for it, why even argue about it in the first place?  Those who decry war amuse me because they wish to use words against my sword.  They feel superior but the truth is very simple.

Brutality will win against words unless it is opposed by those willing to use the tools of brutality with discipline.  That discipline is the difference between the good guys and the bad guys in the most simplistic terms.  I have the ability to unsheathe my sword but I choose not to.  Not everyone in the world is of the same mindset.

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3 thoughts on “In 2015, Why Do We Still Fight?”

  1. GP Cox says:
    3 December 2015 at 13:35

    And we keep losing our biggest and bravest – leaving what behind to breed the next generation?

  2. gamegetterII says:
    3 December 2015 at 17:17

    Reblogged this on Starvin Larry.

  3. Hammerhead says:
    3 December 2015 at 21:45

    Every Generation has had to endure the loss of great and brave young men in order that evil may be held off and defeated GP..but now, with this threat from muslim terrorist very real and on our very doorstep, I am reminded of the words of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower who said in a speech to the King of England before D-Day concerning the prospected losses in the first wave of attacks:

    “But if they (the soldiers) do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all pay dearly with added gallons later. So if some must die, it is in a worthy cause”

    Prepare yourself…the fight is coming

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