Kendal, whether you were a history major or MBA private. dates are dates and facts are facts. More to the point, there remains the question of "just wars". I mentioned a few in my last message. (I could have included Hebrews versus Jericho but I didn't want to offend the Philistines.)
War is a strange concept, illogical, instictive, unproductive, inevitable. Outside of those ten life functions that we learned about in High School biology class, war may be the only activity that we share with every stage in man's evolution. Beliefs change, philosophies come and go, ethics and morals are more stylish than we care to admit but, in good times and bad, we find something to fight about. I don't know. Maybe war is like desease and famine, a way for the earth to check human overpopulation.
"Good wars" and "bad wars" are products of perception. I am a Jew (I wear a hat so people can't tell) so I think that WWII was a good war and I'd like to know what the hell took America so damned long to get into it. (Others, who were not being herded into death camps, can be more objective.)You are a man of principle and a history major with a B average, Kendal. How do you feel about waging war to rescue people? That is what we did in the Balkans and Somalia. Was that OK? Should we have gone into the Soviet Union to combat Stalin's purges? If it is OK to defend your family, how far the "family" extend? I never got a B in any subject but even I can see that war and peace are not so black and white.

                         Mike