> > My point remains that violence is in fact sometimes an answer and that war is in fact sometimes right. There are times when violence is the ONLY answer. If you overlook violent solutions when looking at a problem, you're cheating yourself out of possible solutions based on some misguided notion that you can always exist in a peaceful state.
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> Sometimes war IS the only solution. I just wish we didn't have the problems at all.

Hey, there's nothing wrong with wishing that war *wasn't* necessary. It's only when one starts insisting stubbornly that it never is that one starts to break away from the realm of rationality. :-}