[Charlatan]

Only so much can be accomplished by protesting a war, and the withdrawel of troops is that only thing. You can end a war between two parties by making them meet and then talk about it, but you can't make them ever stop hating each other or get what they want. Wars happen by people wanting something and then are not able to get it, so they go to war to get it. People protest their being a war, then say that they should go in there and end it, and then say they must withdraw so it can work itself out without the intervening party being there. That is the problem, people want war then they say it goes on too long, as it is the same people that march each time, as it is not everybody that demonstrates, and only a few take the time to march for any given reason. So war goes through a popular stage at first, then an unpopular stage after that. Why? Because people want the world to be at peace, so when there is a need for intervention they want it, because they think that their influence there will make a difference, then they see they are not making a difference, the way they see things, and so as they haven't made a difference they want their soldiers back home. Either way they want the war to end.

People want peace because they are on a holy stint, they think that all fighting can be overcome, and because they are into fostering an image of themselves of someone that cares. What would people sacrifice to see the war end? Would they pay half their salary for a year to see it over? When faced with sacrifice like that they would probably take the same approach as those that ignore and joke about wars. So it is logical to say that nobody really cares about war except the people that are hurt by it. People get into a frenzy when they gather like that, all wanting to be the voice of the crowd, as they all want to be seen as somebody who cares, and cares more than other people do. That is the problem, they all want to be seen as people that care more than others becuase it gives them more slef worth, and self worth is addictive, where you get used to seeing yourslef as someone that is worth more in the eyes of societym in the way that allows people to think that the person who marches has a lot of zest.

So people march because of this addiction to self worth and societies view of them, and nothing more. Of course people do think that war is wrong, as war is terrible and makes for terrible media coverage, making people think that it is not a good idea, or a terrible thing completely.