Assignment 9 - Christian Lauritzen

While yes, there may be a time for war, it should be the ultimate final option.  No matter how much we would like to think otherwise, there are crimes that cannot go unexcused.  However, this should remain the final course of action when there are none other to be taken.  Ideally, the entire world would abolish militaries, and the only time they could be created is with UN approval.  This way, the reasons we go to war (stopping atomic weapons, addressing troop build-up, fighting back against military attacks, etc.) would all be eliminated entirely, and Diplomacy and peaceful negotiation could transplant bloodshed.  Approval by the UN would mean that there would need to be a common support for military action, ie addressing ISIS or interfering in the Syrian civil war.  However, killing fellow human beings is never moral, and must only be considered when it would save the lives of others.  Ultimately, peaceful negotiation when not backed by threats of military action has proven to be infinitely more peaceful and usually as if not more effective as war, as shown with Reagan's communication with Gorbachev, or the creation of the EU.  War is a last resort, not a first thought.