Pin Prick Free Place Analysis

In the world, there are many conflicts between man and the law. Within the written law, there are restrictions on the people as well as war and power. In many situations, war could be considered a good thing, promoting peace in the rivals’ nation in hopes of becoming stronger and more powerful, but Napoleon Bonaparte disagrees with the idea. He once said, “If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin pricks that precede cannon shots.” This is influencing the idea that war and other battles only harm nations. This is true to an extent, where wars and battles kill many loved ones and can build even more tension between the nations. Napoleon Bonaparte also suggests that the world should be a “pin prick” free place, where those conflicts create …show more content…
To start the war, “North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked two U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, and President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered the retaliatory bombing of military targets in North Vietnam. By the time U.S. planes began regular bombings of North Vietnam in February 1965, some critics had begun to question the government’s assertion that it was fighting a democratic war to liberate the South Vietnamese people from Communist aggression.” That shows that Northern Vietnam was picking a fight with America and we needed to retaliate against them, obviously concerning America’s citizens whose loved ones were pulled into war. The peace activists started off as a small group during anti-war movements on college campuses, later attracting more and more military families to make their voice heard by 1965. The hippies were always against war, claiming it was hurting us instead of helping the country and had affected the whole country. Due to the anti-war activists, Nixon in 1969 instituted the first war drafting since world war ii which made young men flee the country for that period of time to Canada to avoid drafting. As you can see, both Bonaparte, Madison and the peace activists wanted war to stop and not make a bigger deal about the pinpricks and government’s actions that start them. Another good example for peace between citizens and following the …show more content…
Kennedy’s saying, “It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war”. Bonaparte said that to achieve peace, the nation should avoid the small things that cause such a battle, while Kennedy has said it was unfortunate that we can’t hold peace, except if we go to war. Also, Madison agreed on saying how no man is free of sin, which includes the killing of other people in war. The quotes also gave some hints that our nation should ignore the little things and maintain peace as a good thing, instead of going out to battle and risking lives over the small things, where we should just rise above it. In both quotes, it is quite evident that they relate in the way that neither support war as a way to promote peace. Another relation for the prompts would be Andrew Jackson. He once said that “There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses”. Andrew Jackson seems to mean to say that a government has many harsh flaws that we could definitely do better without. In Madison’s quote, he can relate since it seems as though he believes that there are many flaws in the government as well, involving mankind as a big factor. Also, in Bonaparte’s quote he said how the things that start out small can turn into something bigger, relating to Andrew Jackson as well by him saying how every evil done turns into an even bigger abuse. Overall, the three men are