I think it should be a last resort only. Very few things are worth taking human lives

Yes

If your land is being invaded it has to happen, even while peace talks may be happening.
If there are people hurting others, they need to be stopped, and sometimes war is the only way to do that (WW2, ISIS, etc.)

Of course diplomacy should be tried first, but saying war can never be an option isn't realistic

Agreed.

Sure, it can be justified. If that wasn't a casus belli for war, I don't know what is.

Yes, always.

It's tough. Looking back at the entire world's history there's so many wars that shouldn't have happened. But sometimes, war is nessecary. I always say stay neutral when you don't need to be involved. And only do it as a defense. But nowadays no one really official y declares war, just little shots at each other here and there. But no t enough to start a war.

no, never.

The only justification for war should be overcoming a force that has no other motive than to destroy you, in which case it is destroy or be destroyed. I don't typically support fighting wars for other countries, but if they are a close ally and they are under duress then I may support it depending on the circumstances. The whole approach that the US takes on policing the world is too much for me in most cases, we need to stay out of other countries' business. I think many conflicts recently have been purely out of economic interest, which is terrible.

What if someone steals your ribs right before you take them off the smoker?

Only war could resolve such a heinous, callous, and reprehensible act of outright slander to the art of BBQ and the artist who crafted such fine examples of culinary masterpiece. Death to them all.

I would tell her to shut her mouth, and the fountain of hot air that stops coming from it would result in global cooling. Check.

That will never happen. Them front teeths is trying to get out of there!

Lol, true

Meant to comment earlier, but I was timered for posting porn XD

So here goes

Indeed. Most wars in American history have been mistakes, IMO. But World War II was not one of them.

Few countries had the capability to stop Hitler from achieving his goal of conquering a huge chunk, or all, of the world and turning into a police state where all dissent would be squashed and non-Aryans would be enslaved and eventually massacred.

The U.S. and its allies (most notably Britain and the USSR) fought on the side of righteousness against Nazi Germany and its equally depraved allies, most notably Imperial Japan.

Perhaps Hitler could have been contained through smarter diplomacy and better decision-making in the 1930s or even going back to the end of WWI (imposing a more just peace on Germany that did not leave them mired in an economic depression that caused desperate Germans to turn to a strongman like Hitler).

But those are historical counter-factuals we’ll never know the answer to.

The Civil War is another example of a “just” war from the Union’s perspective. Reclaiming traitorous breakaway states that aimed to set up an apartheid slave state.

The Afghanistan War was (at least initially) justified to defeat Al-Qaeda, the perpetrators of 9/11.

But circling back to what I said upfront, most wars, particularly in recent American history, have been mistakes that can basically be chalked up to the fallacy of having a hammer (the world’s most powerful military) and therefore viewing all the world’s problems as nails.