48. What do you think about war?

This is a very hard question for me. I would like very much too just write about how much I don't like war and how I disagree with it but I can't do that. For the most part I don't agree with war in any form. I don't like the idea of regular people getting killed for, what is sometimes, a useless argument. For an example I feel that the Iraq War is a very just drawn out war that should have never happened. In my opinion we should have never gone into the Middle East in the first place. But as I said I can't completely bash wars because I see their purpose. Although I don't like that soldiers go to war and sometimes end up dead I do see wars purposes. Without war we might have never became an independent world superpower that we are today. Without war we could have still been using slaves for labor. These reasons and more help to show that with all its evil, war can still be ultimately good for the world. What I disagree with is when you have disastrous wars, such as Korea, Vietnam and Iraq. All of those wars have turned out to be, or are in the process of being massive failures. When you are having so many soldiers die for a useless and pointless cause I do not agree with that at all. But there is another reason that I don't completely disagree with war and that is my cousin Robert. Rob is in the military and he is now in his second tour of duty, this time in Afghanistan. As much as I don't want Rob there because I don't want anything to happen to him I see the good in what he is doing. You can tell how proud he is to fight for the country that he loves and he doesn't mind risking his life to protect America. I find that very a very admirable trait. With all this being said I can say that I am very ambivalent in my feelings about war. In some cases I don't like it at all and in others I can see that good it can bring. I guess it's all about how you look at it.