| You name it...it's been resolved by force...the Revolutionary War,...Great Britain was never going to release the colonies thru diplomacy.....it took years of War to do that....Slavery..diplomacy failed to rid us of it..it took the Civil War...WW1....Wilson thought he could use diplomacy but it failed as the Japanese walked out after their initial wars of conquest....WW2...Chamberlain thought he could use diplomacy to hold back Hitler...etc.etc...history is resplendent with actions that were only resolved thru the use of force. So I ask...is diplomacy at best a stopgap measure for situations where force will be used at some point? |