Sometimes only a person who has seen war up close can say it best.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. Is this , I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking? This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. ... Is there no other way the world may live?"

U.S. President and 5 star General Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

It's usually the presidents you don't hear about much that did the best job.

 

I agree Lodog, it was Eisenhower that warned the citizens against the growing threat of the "military-industrial complex" while at the same time effectively holding China accountable for its support of advances in Korea and Asia.

 

War is declared by the rich and fought by the poor , those of us who have seen it we dont want to see it again . Fighting and dying for politicians is a way bad idea.B.T.D.T
peace

 

all politicians are asswipes.