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Well...there is no good war.
West culture tends to classified everything as "good" and "bad". And as there are good guys and bad guys in their mind there is a "good war" too. That's always war west is fighting (hah).
West is preaching "peace" where ever some inconvenient (for west) war starts. But when it comes to their wars peace somehow is not an option.
In Afghanistan and Iraq (both "good" wars in westerner's minds) they are going to lose of course. But they calculated defeat in advance. It's all about math (money).
Who cares for lives of both solders and people on the ground?
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I don't think that anything you wrote is specific to the West. People who start wars or join as soldiers often convince themselves that they are good guys against bad guys. (For example, Bosnian Serbs going to fight Moslems.)
*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
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Actually you are right!
All OUR wars are "good" at least when it comes to media.
And there is always about half of the nation who are not convinced and are against the war. Even historical distance does not make a change. I can't believe for example that people here still celebrate Vietnam War as a right war and veterans are proud of it.
I suppose it's similar everywhere when it comes to our wars. I remember history classes when I was young and how we learned that Serbs always fought just wars and always on the right side when it comes to world wars. Hah
Even when it comes to great empires (they were great because they occupied foreign territory) we all find a way to be proud of them if they are our empires, ha-ha.
So in a way I was wrong. What bothers me in this present time is how west finds all the stupid excuses to justify Afghan and Iraq war. People are not stupid or uninformed (this is a time of information revolution) and they realize that war is about money (always has been) but they agree to justify it because of "our interest". Thing is that when it comes to western interest then it's just but when it comes to anybody else interest it's unjust in mind of westerners. That bothers me. For example war in Georgia. It is widely seen as unjust war and Russia is occupier in their minds. But it is obvious that Russia has it interests too and Georgia is next door with a lot of Russian population there. It's still unjust in the eyes of west. Interestingly when American's and NATO occupied Middle East (so far away from home) somehow they found million reasons to justify it.
It's simply wrong.
But it's human nature I suppose...
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