Troll:

Old friend, I think you've been listening to Bush too hard. War is not "simply" anything, and to trivialize it into an abstract concept is dehumanizing in the extreme. Engaging in war is a complete admission of prior incompetence in relationships. As for consequences to diplomatic difficulties there are plenty of them, including sanctions, economic isolation, and public embarassment inthe community of nations, which should by all rights be used skillfully instead, wherever possible.

This is not to say that a psychotic leader can not force a nation into war, by his dramatizations and obsessions. I can think of two that seem to be going that way now, neither of whom was   elected.

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