The Lost Art of War

If violence is the cure for what ails humankind, why hasn’t it worked by now?

President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence are briefed by Senior Military Leadership Wednesday, April 4, 2019, in the Cabinet Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

Beating Swords into Ploughshares

Mere moments before the doomsday clock is set to strike Midnight, Americans seem to be finally losing their taste for warfare and armed conflict.

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers led by Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) has been organizing for over a year and have now called for a bi-partisan coalition to work with Trump to end U.S. involvement in foreign wars.

Decades of watching hyper-realistic war violence on television, access to horrific first-hand accounts of war, the terrible implications of modern warfare, the fundamental threat of Mutually Assured Destruction; whatever the cause or causes, war seems to be going out of fashion.

Not a moment too soon.

“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with stone spears.” — Albert Einstein, and others.

Good War, Bad War

But, what about when war is necessary? Like to stop a genocide?

Glad you asked. First of all, World War II was not an effort to stop a genocide…