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Originally Posted by junglejim
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War without end. Is that what we want?
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That's what we've had for as long as I, my parents, their parents, and their parents before them have been in the USA.
What makes anyone think the trend will ever end, and why does anyone believe any candidate is going to change the international political landscape sufficiently to make a difference? Things are made better in one place, and a firestorm erupts somewhere else - that's species homo sapiens in action!
In the past 100+ years more wars have been initiated during Democratic administrations than Republican, but that has not made the Democratic Presidents nor the sitting Congresses at that time wrong, nor does it make any President or candidate a warmonger. Stuff happens!
I belong to a combat veterans organization that was founded by Vietnam vets. The only membership criteria are love of motorcycles and having served at least one combat tour. We hoped we would die out eventually due to "no more combat vets," and never expected our membership would include new veterans young enough to be grandkids for a couple of our members, and now they outnumber the VietVets. We have several parent-offspring member combinations, something we never expected or hoped would happen.
While none of us likes war, ignoring the probability of more of them in the future is playing ostrich-in-the-sand. And it does not matter which candidate gets elected, as world events aren't really dictated within that 61.4square-mile area (namely, DC) on the eastern shore of the USA.