people against war

I dunno, I am against war and nobody has thrown rocks at me yet. Though I am sure that there are a Couple reviewers on here that would if they Saw me in person.

War... its a word I've been seeking the meaning of ever since I narrowly missed having my ass stuffed into one. I think Sherman said "War is hell," and while I've always thought the description a tad simplistic, I have never doubted the assertion. I have learned little of war for as much as I have absorbed, I think, because I think you gotta be there. Sometimes I'm pissed at myself for not being there and sometimes I'm happy that I didn't get fucked up like lots of people I've known, spoken to, or just read a story or snippet from. I can say that war has a cost, and perhaps that is the thing not like about it, so if you don't like war for that reason, I get it. I know a bit of what it costs as a jarhead I called a friend found himself on the wrong side of the fortunes of war some time ago and now "Crunch" as I called him drinks no more. I still throw a shot for me and a shot for him sometimes. I'm still trying to decide if I hate war. As a guy that was bred into some kind of cocky warr... Read more

I'm not against war when there's a reason for one. The one in Iraq was completely unnecessary. If we were going to be anywhere, it should have been in the right country, like the one that attacked us.

I'd say 50%

CanadaSucks says it well, once again -- violence is a staple of American culture. In reality, few human beings are truly able to cope with violence when it happens, but an astonishing number of Americans suspend reality in the belief that they could. How else could we explain the success of Rambo? The fantasy-scenario runs through Americans' heads all the time, from the prosaic to the grandiose: how I would respond to a burglar, what I would have done on the hijacked planes, etc. Americans are addicted to imagining violence, and over and over again, this imagination explodes horrifically into reality. We tend to hate anyone who has the faith to believe that it is never necessary. Maybe we are right to distrust absolute pacifists, but the American hatred of them goes to an unnecessary extreme that can be as irrational as absolute pacifism itself.

Oh, please - this is simpering BS.  No one other than a lunatic LIKES war.  It's like anything else in this imperfect world - sometimes it happens.  You know, some dim wit decides to uhhh, I don't know destroy the Pacific Fleet or take down a couple of buildings full of human beings.  Most people take this as a sign that the perpetrator isn't willing to listen to reason at that point.  Not really the time to kick back and start comtemplating your next cell phone purchase, you know?  No, I don't hate people who hate war - I hate people who start them.

What? If you like the war, than there is something seriously wrong with you. You can't like something that violent, distructive, and sad, and if you do, you need to be on the Prozac or something...

Im against war...until some pig flies a plane into a building in my backyard and kills 3000 innocent people who just wnated to put in another days honest work for their families and futures!!

I'm pretty sure most sane Americans are against war, in general. However some Americans understand that it is sometimes necessary, in order to preserve our freedom and our way of life. I don't think any civilized person or country LIKES war.

Nobody wants war. It would be great if people at odds could just sit at a table, discuss thing, and come to some peaceful conclusion, as it occasionally has happened in history. These times have truly been few and far between. Sometimes diplomacy works, sometimes a Mexican standoff keeps things from breaking into war, and sometimes war is unavoidable.

Absolutely. Americans pretend by saying it's such a shame we have war but violence is an inescapeable part of the culture. Can we go 20 years without some form of armed warfare? Can we go 20 minutes without 100 gun deaths? Look, I love it here - I've lived in other places - but Americans should be a little more honest and embrace their culture of violence, talk about it, and make some honest self-evaluations. . .but pretending that we hate violence and war while endorsing it is just plain hypocritical and silly to the outside world.