| one could argue that force "succeeded" because the power that be chose not to resort to diplomacy to solve their problems. i.e. there was always an aggressor.
if you apply that logic to iraq - we were the aggressor.
vietnam could have been averted through diplomacy..
further, the past record of diplomacy's inadequacies DO NOT mean that we should abandon diplomacy and always seek military solutions. as some wise man say:
war is a failure of diplomacy. and,
war may sometimes be a necessary evil. but no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
when you opt to live in a world where you've given up on diplomacy and view war as the only answer, you live in a world devoid of hope. |