| Mr Khan said: Odd. Given your strong beliefs in natural law and human nature, i thought you would have assumed war was inevitable. My view on it is that war is primarily an aberration, existing either as a miscalculation or as an act of desperation (like terrorism). Countries that feel they've been completely backed into a corner resort to war, countries that start wars that they then lose misjudged their ability to win, while countries that don't surrender immediately and later lose misjudged their ability to survive (although if you feel that your enemy is going to utterly destroy you either way, then you fight out of desperation, the irrational belief that the more damage you do to your enemy will make your own death more meaningful). |
War is the lifeblood of Big Government. It's not "human nature", the only way the world's democracies have got away with war is after extensive propaganda aimed at dehumanising the enemy.
All of the examples you've given there, you talk about "countries"... but it's not the countries, just the Governments... under no circumstances would the general Iranian populace ever want war.
