As long as there are leaders who will kill thousands or millions of their own citizens to serve a political purpose, there will be leaders who will not have any problem in doing the same to the people of other nations for similar purposes. There will always be a need for free nations to defend themselves.

You may reasonably argue that what we are doing in Iraq is not right, but while such monsters are in the world, it is inane to believe that somehow "swearing off war" and disarming will get a free nation anywhere but into a set of chains. I'm afraid that history has proved this more times than I can count.

You might as well say the way to stop crime in a city is to get rid of the armed policemen.