Hedges Arguments About Myth Of War

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I enjoyed reading your discussion, you summarized the arguments that Hedges made in this writing and speech. I completely agree that there are alternatives to avoid the bloody wars. Conflicts may remain in the society, but CAR should put more efforts in nonviolent resolution of any sort conflict. Hedges arguments about myth of war would be very important understanding for the conflict resolution, because we have seen war as victory, glory, and manhood; however, we never looked back the reality in the field. I do have a lot of respect to our military, who fought for our nation, but the main issue is our war policies, which causes thousands of death, injury, and loss of cultural heritages. For example, the Vietnam War that did not give us anything

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