War, What is it good for ?

[spongebob]

1. to claim new territory.
2. to establish dominance.
3. possible financial gains.
4. possibly get rid of people you dont like.
5. to keep your armies experienced in battle.

 

[spongebob]

True, but perhaps if we had spent the past few centuries devoted to space exploration as opposed to destruction of each other, then living on a different planet or a colony on the moon or Mars would be possible. It's amazing how the natural tendency of almost any species you can identify is to expand itself and propogate throughout its habitat, while the natural tendency of humans is to destroy one another for no logically sound reason.

-Warik

maybe we are kin to the african plains big cat, they go to war with themselves and the hyena nightly. the male lion also practices infanticide. he apparently only wants to propagate his own genes.

 

[Warik]

We are so flawed as a species.

What's all this "we" shit?

=)

-Warik

 

[Longhorn85]

"To hear the lamentations of their women"

 

[aurelius]

To answer the original question:

the economy, stupid.