Why Do We Need War To Find Peace

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Do We Really Need War To Find Peace?
Forever, people have argued back and forth with each other on whether or not we should have war. There have been two sides to what people think and agree about war. Many people believe that war is a necessity and there are also many who agree that war is not necessary to find peace. I believe that war is not necessary. I feel that people are capable of finding a new way of finding peace between countries. I find it ironic that in war, we fight for peace but in that we are not necessarily being peaceful. War is not peaceful and then we go fight expecting to get peace in return for not being peaceful. We are putting people into these wars making them risk their lives for the country. The brave men and women …show more content…

He finds that war can be good for the aspect of fighting for something we want or are trying to keep. But, at the same time, today we are fighting for much smaller things such as independence or just trying to keep the country safe instead of trying to gain larger pieces of land as they would in the earlier years. O’brien gives the reader some deeper insight on what these brave men and women are doing to keep a country safe. “They carried all they could bear”(O’brien 7). Soldiers carry the weight of their baggage as well as the emotional baggage of the war and the losses of their own men. Through these experiences the soldiers grow mentally by pushing through the rough patches of the war and still fighting for their country. One soldier said that the war was “nakedly and aggressively boring”(O’brien 33). The soldiers were fighting for something not worth fighting for. They were putting their life on the line when it was not needed. They were getting injured and dying for their country when we could have better, less deadly ways of finding peace. In “Give Me Liberty” by Patrick Henry, he finds that people “often see the same subject in different lights”(Henry 1). What I feel Henry is saying is that there are people that have their own opinions about war and whether they feel it is good or bad. “We have petitioned; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne”(Henry 2). Henry feels that even though people have tried to get new ways put into place but the government isn’t listening and is just pushing it aside. Instead of pushing the people’s

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