Quote Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit
Its not like I'm saying things can't be solved without war, just that sometimes war can solve things very well.
What part of the solution to slavery in the US would you call "solving things very well"? The KKK, cultural division, and continuing racial strife more than a century and a half later-- this is the legacy of the Civil War. War, as a rule, is messy, and creates more messes.

I would not call war a positive thing or a tool for good, but rather something that becomes inevitable when conflict gets to a certain point where you have to lay the smack down. Or, more likely, when ruthless people and other factors conspire to create a chaotic and violent situation which really does little good at all for the people it affects the most. War is more often predatory than just, and once it has finished with the prey it comes to eat the predators.

From another viewpoint, it's all just part of the cycle of life.