Perhaps a new look at what constitutes "legal" war should be entered -- not allowing it to simply be legal by reason of declaration but only under conditions of certain defined threats to the survival of a people or the people of a state -- NOT merely to the leaders of the state.

The problem is that wars are often caused by insanity and incompetence.

Even insanity can sometimes pass, but the death of young, able, intelligent people who step forward in relatively good-faith responses to a PR campaign about defending a homer country against an eneemy country is extremely permanent.

I seriously wonder how many soldiers Germany would have raised if the strategies being considered by Hitler and his cohorts were to have been made public BEFORE they were executed under military commannd?

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