Quote Originally Posted by Ghost101 View Post
Pride in country~Nationalism (very bad)
Imperialism (also bad)
Bored (ridiculously bad)
Resources (flawed logic = bad)
To fight the good fight (too subjective = bad)
to fix a slight on you or country (ridiculous = bad)
So now that my little friend has listed most of the bad reasons to make war on another country, perhaps we should think about this seriously.

Perhaps the only good reason to start a war against another country is to implement a regime change but only under certain circumstances. The circumstances I am thinking of is those rare occasions where the current regime is slaughtering large numbers of it's own population due to racial, religious or philosophical motivation or simply because the country is in the control of a mad tyrant who rules through terror.

Some instances of this in recent times are Pol Pott in Cambodia and perhaps Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Even then it is a risky business as removing a ruling group can create a power vacuum that may be filled by another group that may also be seen as undesirable, or, as in the case of Iraq, could create an ongoing conflict that turns the liberators into an occupying army, which then loses popular support in the country that you were trying to help.

Real war is a risky business and the consequences are severe if there is a poor outcome. Sorry to mention WWII but in that case, even a successful outcome cost the victors so much that Great Britain was still rationing food 10 years after the war was over. Making war, even for the best of motives has to be a last resort, after all other options have been exhausted. We live in a global community now. The age of empire building is long gone.