Perpetual War: How Does This End?

[marmar]

[Initech]

1. It ends when the CIA can't stage fundamentalist coups and we run out of boogeymen.

First it was Saddam Hussein, then it was al Qaeda, now it's Isis. We "defeat" these nemesis, then newer, scarier enemies emerge. It ends when we run out of these enemies.

[J_J_]

2. "The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continous" Orwell

It will end when we end it.

"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it" Eisenhower

[randome]

3. Well, we could let the Middle East and Europe fend for themselves and cross our fingers.

This is the result of technology (faster communications) merging the 'Old' world with the new. Conflict is inevitable and will eventually decline. It's anyone's guess when murdering bands of killers will stop rampaging through the eastern hemisphere.

I suppose we could sit and watch on satellite TV.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
Gregory Peck, Mirage (1965)[/center][/font][hr]