On April 19, 1995, at 0902 hours, Oklahoma City was rocked to the core when a bomb was set off outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (History.com Staff, 2009). A total of 168 people were killed, another 850 were injured as the result of the bombing. At the time of the bombing, there were no indications of who was responsible for the disaster. While searching the debris investigators discovered a twisted axle from the vehicle where the bomb had been located. The hidden vehicle identification code led investigators to a rental facility in Junction City, Kansas (Goodman, 2017).
Since the beginning of time, war has been practiced for numerous reasons ultimately to benefit a group of people or nations. But, when war divides the world into two different sides with the capability to destroy faster than we can create, it makes us question, is war really worth it? With the aftermath of World War One, people we’re still divided, but for a different reason, after a war with a catastrophic amount of deaths we had militarists advocating to fight and pacifists demanding peace. The two sources I have used from this essay comes from a European militarist, Friedrich Von Bernhardi with his book “War a Biological Necessity” and United States pacifists, William James, in his book “Moral Equivalent of War”. Therefore this essay will review the
The authors of the book quote former President William Howard Taft by him saying that the war was “a cataclysm” and “a retrograde step in Christian civilization,” and “a disaster to mankind”. These profound words were found more prominently than you think, from different politicians and leaders in America. As the thought of war began to creep closer and closer into
The outcomes of war can sometimes be positive and sometimes negative. In My brother Sam is Dead the authors, James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier, are trying to tell you that war can be good like Patriots fighting for our freedom. Since WWII had already passed we get the advantage of knowing that the patriots won and gained freedom. However at the time people didn’t know if their sacrifices will be actually worth it. War shouldn't be considered a mandatory action even if we may win because there’s still the lives being taken because of it, children killed by men with guns in their hands.
The world has been prospering from war for a long time. But, we do not always see the problems it causes. For instance, it tears families apart, it clashes generations, and finally it shows us principal versus reality. So, if war brings more bad things than good it defeats the purpose of even having a war in the first place. The authors of My Brother Sam is Dead also feels that war is pointless and unnecessary.
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity," Dwight D. Eisenhower once said. In modern society, war is glorified. Children walk down their school's hallways terrorizing others in that it makes them seem sophisticated. However, war is not something to be glorified. According to Ishmael Beah, who was once a child soldier, war is agonizing.
Many people wonder if war is a necessary evil. War can end injustice and brutality. It can lead to freedom and liberty, and ensure the safety of future generations. However, war also costs lives, and it leads to brutality. War can tear apart families, and cause pain and suffering.
War is about principles. It can be used to end injustice, tyranny, or both. It can band people together to form a bond that is unbreakable, all fighting for the same cause. But that bond can have a high price. War kills soldiers, tearing them from family; it kills innocent people, just trying to survive.
War may bring freedom and prosperity, but not without the cost of killing the innocent and bringing misery and sorrow into the
Over the past fourteen years, approximately 779 men suspected of terrorism have been detained at the Prison for Alleged Terrorists at the United States Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba. Now, only eighty men remain. A highly controversial debate surrounding this camp is whether or not closing Gitmo – as the prison came to known – is justifiable and whether or not it should be done. There is one simple answer to this argument. The closing of the Prison for Alleged Terrorists is not justifiable, or reasonable, and therefore should not be done.
Leaving the military may have been the best and worst decision I have made during my life. The financial stress that has come from not having a job is almost more than I can handle. Adjusting to this new non-institutionalized life is very different than what I have become used to. Not being told how to do this or that every day is one change I enjoy. One of the outcomes of leaving the military that I dislike is not having a paycheck every two weeks.
What Are the Pros and Cons of Military Spending? As the US economy tanked, the banks have been bailing out and the country losing its jobs, its military spending has continued to grow. For the past years, it is recorded to have increased more than 100%, which is very high compared to the height of Ronald Reagan’s presidency and the Cold War. The money allocated for the defense budget is used to purchase sophisticated weapons that often do not make it into production, but when they do, they are just too expensive to maintain.
With quotes such as: “ ...the supreme degree of being and the supreme degree of life are one and the same thing. You [God] are being in a supreme degree and are immutable,” it is to no surprise that most readers interpret God as Saint Augustine’s divide ruler (8). To further their position, these same readers may present evidence as in chapter VIII of the Confessions when Augustine converts to Christianity and accepts God as his “helper and redeemer” (155). They may even argue that the whole point of the memoir is to give his thanks and praise to his Lord and Savior. However, I do not believe that is the Lord who Augustine follows.
War. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. This a song lyric from a song called War written by Edwin Starr. In this song he talks about the horrors of war and the meaninglessness of everyone's deaths.
Woodrow Wilson once said, “This is the war to end all wars.” This phrase, originally devised by H.G. Wells, was written about World War I. Twenty-one years later, World War II was declared. War has followed us for millenniums and will continue to follow us for millenniums to come. Some of the most important things about war that have developed over time are the rules and laws put into place. However, that can never take away from the billions of lives lost to these inhumane warfares.
