Rafael Leyre wrote:
> "Edgar  Svendsen" <solon013@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<nAbrd.5170$6K5.2357@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>...
> 
>>I'm not sure that the world divides up the way you say.  How would you 
>>describe the massacre in Ruwanda?  It does not seem as though Ruwanda was in 
>>the throes of Militarism, yet great and terrible violence certainly 
>>occurred.  Mabe Miltarism isn't the only, or even the main, cause of 
>>violence although I agree it is clearly one of the causes.
>>
>>Ed
> 
>  
> I agree. This post was about the military, not about the whole of
> violence.
> 
> It might well be true that war is not even the main type of violence.
> But it seems to me that war, of all types, has the most 'normality',
> even 'officiality'. No other type of violence (civil war, ethnic and
> other killings, ecological exhaustion, urban confrontations,
> hunger,...) has been justified - even extolled - so openly.
> 
> War is not a good remedy against violence of other types (the
> so-called 'lesser evil' doctrine). I know of no instance where warfare
> delivered such a remedy, unless for a very short time.
> 
You mean like the American Revolution or Civil War.


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