Are you both familiar with Smedley Butler? "War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."
War is a racket (1935)
You argue the case for war when actually we should turn that on it head and should demand peace. Until such time you play into the hands of the psychopaths in governments and the corporations that produce weapons of mass destruction. Speak truth to power, we are many they are few and the many will overcome. A global movement started in opposition to the Iraq War. Millions of people stood up to Blair and Bush (war criminals) and that movement has not gone away. Not sure what you mean by the bumper stick comment? Peace
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All Marines know well who Smedley Butler is. Yes people get rich off war. They also get rich off cancer drugs, jails, funeral expenses, childbirth expenses, divorce litigation, etc.
One group can demand peace and refuse to reciprocate violence. All it takes is another group willing to do violence to put the first group in a mass grave
Yes. War is a racket. But so is taxes and a lot of other things. Another quote is that war is an extension of politics when diplomacy fails. Some people don't speak diplomacy. They speak intimidation and murder if you don't submit to their will. Asking them nicely to stop doesn't work.
What I mean by the bumper sticker comment is that regardless of how bad everyone wants peace, some people want to enslave, dominate, and murder others en masse.
How do you propose to stop that from happening by 'demanding peace'?
Worked out great for Neville Chamberlain.