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The Just War

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
- Ernest Hemingway
I disagree with statement “War is often justified and worth the cost”. Through out history, war has been defined as a state of open, armed, often-prolonged conflict, but what is a Just war? It’s a question that has been around as long as the concept as war itself. Some think that a just war is a war that only occurs after every other peaceful alternative to conflict has been tried and failed. But how many attempts must be made before it is conceded just? Who decides how long we must wait before war becomes our “last” option and what is the cause of it? When war does become our last option, we have to know who suffers because of it and decide if it is worth the cost.
The only wars that are ever conceded “justified” by the western world are the ones that ether we or our allies start. The reasons for these wars are many; sometimes a country has committed great crimes......


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