But we antagonize them into more wars having to do with oil, greed, oil, greed, oil, greed and so on.
As the panel points out, more civil wars have been brought to an end through negotiation since 1990 than in the 200 years before that.
"History shows that the costs of war will continue to grow for a decade or more after the wars have ended," Shinseki said.
Until recently, most of the disasters were natural in origin; however, lately, man-made disasters, especially wars, have become more and more frequent.
We like to pretend that World War II also happened to be just that kind of war -- relatively unequivocal, politically, and more totalizing than subsequent wars have been.
Historians are often reluctant to draw comparisons between historical events, and this has been especially true for Vietnam and Iraq, because the two wars have more differences than similarities.
Bidding wars have become more common.
If the ultimate argument against the war is that it isn't being won, the advocates for more war will have extra incentive to show that it can be won after all.
War intensity measured by the number of casualties is even more concentrated a few wars had most of the battle deaths.15 Finally, city size is the most highly concentrated: most people live in a few cities.16 Fig. 6 Concentration of crime compared to other phenomena.
