Assignment 9: What is it good for?- Jake Tucker

   War is sometimes necessary to stop an evil in the world. If you need proof of this look at World War 2, the Nazis had gone almost unstopped until a coalition of forces came in and stopped their evil acts, and think what the world would be like had America not stepped in and simultaneously stopped two evil and expanding empires and their genocidal tendencies. The world would be run by German-speaking, socialist fascists, and that would totally suck. This instance is an example of a time in history when war was justified as the morally right thing to do, and today not many people would disagree. On the contrast, war is sometimes not just and sometimes the wrong thing to create. In the new political season we've found ourselves in, the War in Iraq has emerged that the two main candidates accuse each other of supporting, while denying the supported it themselves, which both likely did; the Iraq War is one that has become less justified with time and the current knowledge. At the time the nation was in unrest and we wanted to get the terrorists, however, as time has passed, it is clear it was the wrong thing to do. So the perspective of war really depends on the knowledge of the individual. Due to this war, and really nothing, is ever  just, and concurrently nothing is ever unjust; it is all reliant on perspective.