I have been an antiwar activist from an early age. I grew up during Vietnam, and ever since I can remember, I thought war was the wrong way to go about things. Warmongers always say that appeasement is bad, but that’s not the only alternative. War is the failure of diplomacy. I’ve never been in a war in my life.
Using “war” as a metaphor for an effort to solve a problem is kind of silly, in my opinion. War on cancer? That was a fundraising slogan. It helped Nixon get Congress to appropriate funds for research. Research. Research is not war. Sorry.
The War on Drugs is, at best, a police action. As should be the war on terrorism. Again, they are called wars in order to inflame people’s passions and to raise money. People like to be patriotic. But it’s pretty pathetic for politicians to resort to this kind of rhetoric and is causes big problems in the long run.
War is just a metaphor. An inappropriate one, at that, in most cases. I don’t think it’s a useful way of seeing things, and I’d rather not declare war ever again. Let’s solve our problems using cooperation, not war. We’ll do a better job, and people will be much happier in the long run.