War is a failure of diplomacy.

[kentuck]

Some lessons that are never learned:

Don't ever go to war with other cultures unless your survival is at stake. Witness the examples of Vietnam and Iraq.

Don't ever go to war with another country that has an alien or different religion. You can never win a religious war.

Don't ever go to war as a choice. War should be the final option and only when your survival is threatened.

Don't ever go to war unless the country supports the mission whole-heartedly. When millions are marching in the streets against the war, heed the message.

[Penndems]

1. Diplomacy was not practiced in this particular instance

Bush delegated the duties of the State Department to the Pentagon. No Middle East envoy was sent to Baghdad to negotiate or broker an agreement.

This Administration completely overshot State and went straight to DoD.

[mdmc]

2. yes, yes, yes

[Hosnon]

3. My take is that war is in fact an extreme form of diplomacy.

And I agree with the rest of what you said. Pushing the button should only be done when there is no other choice and the consequences of not pushing it are too great.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. K&R

Don't ever go to war

.

[TahitiNut]

5. "Never get involved in a land war in Asia."

Inconceivable. :dunce:

[The2ndWheel]

6. It is the most famous of classic blunders

[Az]

9. Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha

thud.

[TahitiNut]

11. lol! (We're all sick.)

How could I have allowed my intellect to be formed by Princess Bride? Yikes. (Why do I love it?)

:silly:

[Az]

12. It is the perfect movie

Not the best but it is the perfect movie.

[Az]

7. Culture wars are unwinnable

You cannot kill people into seeing things your way. They need to be alive to do that. You can kill off the people that do not see things your way. But in the end that becomes genocide and the Nazis tried it already.

[The2ndWheel]

13. Americans tried it to, we were just more successful in the long term

And because of that success, we now live in a world somehow ruled by law. So apparently, genocide and slavery aren't always bad. America wouldn't exist without them. Crazy world.

[seabeyond]

8. now feels like a good time to remember. oct before war, saddam said

he would allow self put in exile and tell trooeven brooch the ps to work with u.s. bush didnt want to hear it. he wanted war. wouldnt subject or possiblility. he had troops accumulating on kuwait border and wanted to fight his way in.

[Bandit]

10. Don't you realize that common sense is not allowed in GOP America

Why do you hate amerika? The 21st cnetury is supposed to be War and more War and especially War Spending... Get it????

[siligut]

14. These warmongers saw their survival as they know it threatened.

Add, don't go to war to take other peoples stuff.