I hate war. As a historian, I have read countless books about war, especially those over the past century, and war is brutal, barbaric, savage, hideous, horrid—there aren’t enough words in my Thesaurus to describe how horrible I think war is and how much I despise it. In war, it is nearly always the innocent who suffer the most. If we could have thrown Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Tito into the ring and let them duke it out, that would have been far better. In the 20th century, hundreds of millions of innocent lives would have been saved.  

But it’s never the demons who cause the wars who fight in them. It’s always the guiltless who endure the most agony. 

I hate war, but I also cannot deny that sometimes it is necessary. Hitler had to be stopped. Japan had to be stopped. North Korea—communism—had to be stopped. And the only way to do that was by war.

Sadly, one of the greatest truths of history is that there always are, have been, and will be evil monsters and nations on this earth. Evil does exist, and for the sake of the descent among humanity, it must be eradicated. And sometimes war is the only, and/or best, means of doing that. The Old Testament teaches that God used war at times to remove whole wicked, barbaric, savage peoples from this earth; He even used war, many times, to punish His own people. An entire tribe can become so vile that it is no longer fit, no longer deserving, no longer has a right to live on this beautiful, blessed earth God created for mankind.........

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