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"...wars have been voluntary and were not required for our survival"
Tom Brosz — (archived)

If you go down the list of wars we have fought, and ask yourself what would have happened if the U.S. had not fought them, or fought in them, a lot of them look more necessary all the time.

In many cases, it's a case of stopping something now, or stopping it later. Had the Korean War not been fought, South Korea would be like North Korea now. How many lives would that have cost?

If the first Gulf War had not been fought, Saddam would own Kuwait, and would certainly have been armed with nuclear weapons years ago.

What would South America, Central America, and Africa look like if for much of the Cold War, we had simply decided to let the Soviets have their way and stayed out of all of it?

Certainly there have been some wars that were more rotten than others. The Spanish American one comes to mind.

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