Never mind the main narrative on this thing, I continue to learn new things. Did you know that, before he died, Patton–like MacArthur in the Korean War–was begging for a chance to nip the next war before it could start? Czechoslavakia need not have endured a half century or so of captivity. Berlin need never have been partitioned. China need not have gone Communist, which itself would have PREVENTED the Korean, Vietnamese, and countless other regional wars the world over.
Live Aid would not have been necessary, because the Ethiopean famine would not have happened. Cuba would not have gone Communist, and its people not enslaved.
Sometimes war IS the answer. We need to look carefully, but this fact is, in my mind indisputable. We will have an end to war when we have an end to evil. We can look to it, work to make it happen, but it is far from here, and in many ways we are trending the wrong direction.
This recalls to mind Churchill’s call to support the Whites in the Russian civil war, which was also ignored.
What, now, are we missing? What policy or policies should we be pursuing that we are not, which will quickly or eventually lead to vast problems which could have been prevented? Where is evil being allowed to run loose and propagate?