War and Peace
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”
(William Pitt, 1783)
This powerful statement brings into reality the depth of feeling that can bring a nation or a people to war. As we study wars of the past, we can see individually, the major factors as to why the war was waged. For example, nationalism, alliances, and military strategy are cited as the main causes of World War I. World War II can be attributed in part to the Great Depression. The Vietnam War was the U.S.’s attempt at supporting the South Vietnamese government against a corrupt North Vietnamese government. We are now in the midst of not only one war, but two; one with its roots in an attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and one as a result of Saddam Hussein’s failure to disclose weapons of mass destruction, as per his agreement with the United Nations.
We cannot effectively study the causes......
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