With so much (unrealiable) information on TV and Internet, I'm starting to have bad dreams about it. For instance, today I dreamt that I was a reporter in Lebanon and the word on the street was that Siria was joining Iraq's war. Weird shit...
It's funny but since the data-recording times there have always been defensive wars. The Roman Empire got from a small city in Italy to Almost all mediterranean and British islands through a series of much needed wars to protect their borders. They kept expanding, expanding until finally their lines of communication and defense were too thin to make a difference in sight of the barbarian hordes.
The Firtst World War was supposed to be the war to end all wars and in 1939, Nazi Germany started the war with Poland and later with the Soviet Union with weak excuses of protecting their borders or territorial claims.
There's always a reason to start a war but finding one to stop it, it's more difficult since people's minds tend to forget about the mileniuns of bloodshed and horror. If Orwell was alive he would probably write about the "precise bombings". After all they aren't nothing like Dresden, Nagasaki or Hiroshima but it must feel nice to be a Iraqi civilian living a few hundred meters from a designated target, never knowing when a huge sound wave will brake every glass and nerves in the house. A near miss might get the Iraqi people free from worries and their lives, but this isn't Stalingrad either since if we are to believe, people have freedom of movements and can always start a career cross border as a war refugee.
Yet another old trade made new in the times of today.
I believe in International Law but my goverment doesn't. Next elections I'll remind them of that.