Why?

What is the motive behind war? I just don't get it. Why must we fight and take innocent lives and die ourselves just because of a little conflict? What ever happened to talking it out and resolving conflict in a civil adult manner? People are always getting hastled for acting "childish" in every day life, which I find quite ironic because if you look at the big picture of things, countries are fighting and using violence and killing each other just to show how big and powerful they are. Sounds quite childish to me. Bullying each other all in the name of power and pride. It's nothing but a waste of lives. Are countries really that selfish that they have to go and take away the lives of each other's citizens?

We're watching Saving Private Ryan in class right now and I'm fairly disgusted and upset by the images I am seeing. Seeing soldiers shooting each other down like it's a freaking video game. It's just so...horrifying and sad. When a man's life is taken away, it not only affects him directly, it rips apart the lives of his family and his friends. One gunshot can have so much impact. Seeing the water stained red by all the blood. Blood for such an avoidable cause. Lives taken in vain for one's country. Are those lives lost really going to make a difference in resolving the conflict?

War doesn't solve problems, it only exaserbates them. At the end, when two leaders are sitting there with all their patriots and civilians lying on the ground, dead, will the problem really be fixed? The answer is, no. War is only a way of hiding what the real problems are. Because we're too stupid to pull our heads out of our asses and make compromises, we have to settle for killing each other. How pathetic is that? It's pretty much saying you don't like somebody? Well then just go out and shoot them in the face, then they won't bother you anymore. It's fucking disgusting, but it's just the human disease. We humans by nature are power hungry and it just takes too much effort to work things out so the easiest thing to do is go out and eliminate our competition. But have you ever noticed that it never works in the end? The competion usually bites back three times as hard and gets us right in the ass. Either that or karma comes back to get us. There's never a way a war can occur without serious and avoidable repercusions.

I wonder if there will ever be a time when war becomes obsolete. Will we ever beable to see what fucking idiots we are and see that war just doesn't work?