Are all wars evil?

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 War - Is It Necessary?
If war is necessary, it is a necessary evil. Its evil is sometimes concealed for a
time by its glamour and excitement but when war is seen in its reality, there is
a little glory about it. At its best, it is hideous calamity. It brings in awful loss
of life. In recent great wars, millions of men, women and children were
killed, many died of diseases, famines and untold sufferings.

A war generally sweeps away the strongest and best men of a country and
leaves the aged, the weak and the unfit to carry on the race. Then there are
related sorrows and sufferings it causes to those whom it does not kill the
widows, the orphans and mothers rendered childless.

The divested homes and wrecked hearts tell the rest of the story with tears. It
brings in destruction of property, waste of health, dislocation of trade and
industry, crushing burdens of taxation and general upsetting of the social life
of the nation on war.

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That is not all as it brings in international hatred and bitterness also with itself
that remain to be seeds of more wars in the future. If war is such an evil, is it
really necessary? Few people will be found to defend war as a good thing,
especially after awful experiences of two Great World Wars. But many will
argue that it is necessary.

They say that so long as human nature is human nature, there must be wars,
and that no other way has been devised of setting national disputes. This is an
attitude of despair. Men have found way to abolish their great evils such as
slavery and if they want to abolish war they can definitely find ways to do
that as where there’s will there’s way.

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