""This thread is proof positive that war will always be with us.""

Indeed! As long as we have the kind of jingoistic xenophobes who believe that, of all countries, theirs is the one innocent participant in conflict.

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""we all have the mental capacity to reject jingoistic or racist justifications for conflict""

I'm afraid that statement doesn't stand up to examination Achmelvich, and you need go no further than this thread to see that.

Don T.