State of War

War is the natural state of man. In all of human history, only a few decades have not been visited by active conflict. From when Cain slew Abel, the human race has been trying to erase itself. Now, with the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, humanity actually has the means to that end. Murder, war, and killing will never cease, until the human race is extinguished. I differentiate between murder and killing because murder is wrong while killing is sometimes necessary to thwart evil. War can be either good or evil. A war of aggression is bad. A defensive war is not. World War II is the perfect example of a great good emerging from violence. It took force to wipe out Hitlerism and stop the spree of conquest by Japan. Without war, every Jew on earth would likely be dead. All of Asia would be under the boot of the Empire of Japan. I do not want my country shedding blood anywhere, but I would rather eliminate the threat of Iran becoming a Middle Eastern Nazi Germany now, than see Israel wiped out once Iran has their nukes.