For you guys to compare:
If you take the average dogs lifespan of 12-15 years and a period of 6 months deployment its like seeing your best buddy after 3 years.
kind of. because I'm gay and in the military, it means a lot that we can serve openly now. maybe you don't know how hard it was under Don't Ask Don't Tell, but it was. And this meant a lot to me.
but i do respectfully disagree with your opinion about peace... i can see that with the way we are today and the condition the world is in, it may be very hard to comprehend or seriously invision true peace, but i strongly believe that true peace is only a thought away, in a society that is only a thought away from a shift in consciousness...
I hope someday we get to that point, but in my opinion there are just to many different people with conflicting ideologies. Even if everyone's ideals were similar our instincts would eventually get the better of us as we fight for resources like food and warmth.
Personally while silly I have a small belief that in our great strides in modern medicine, agriculture, and civilization there isn't much that threatens us. I believe nature or the universe however you want to name it, has a way of keeping populations under control, and if the species thrives to much it just clears some of the brush so to speak. If Microbes can't kill us now or predators the only thing left to kill us is ourselves.
peace is a lie, there is only passion;
through passion, I gain strength;
through strength, I gain power;
through power, I gain victory;
through victory, my chains are broken;
the Force shall set me free.
''Oh my god, he killed people! he must think murder is ok!'' - you
Jesus Christ man, the horse is so dead, it's already decomposed. Think of it this way: If the US, or any country, for that matter, didn't have an army, ANY organization that would use guns would instantly dominate everyone. Here's a quote to help you figure it out better:
"Diplomacy is great when it works, but is difficult when everyone already perceives you as a threat.'' - Illusive Man, Mass Effect 2.
That basically means, they send in the troops when Diplomacy fails. It has ALWAYS been that way, ever since the stone age, groups would disagree, they would rage war. Today we use guns, back then we used sticks and stones. It's Human nature to hurt each other to prove we are superior, it's the curse we bear for having a higher intelligence. Remember when you were a little faggot? You would try to hurt people when you got mad? And by little faggot, I meant preschool and early elementary, not 6th grade. You eventually learned that hurting people is wrong, but had they not thought you that, you would throw stones at people for disagreeing with you. In other context, we thumb up people who we agree with, and we downthumb those who we don't. No one is truly diplomatic. Not even me, and I'm Canadian.
tl;dr, Accept the fact humans are violent by nature. And there's nothing we can do to change that. Tell the most peaceful person on earth that to save everything he believes in, he has to kill one person, his main enemy, it'll take a while, but he will eventually kill him.
Hell ignore human intelligence, now that I think of it, it's animal instinct.
Think of wolves and their alpha males. They don't debate who would be better to lead the group. They fight and the weakest dies.