...Fighting, murdering, and being murdered for your country is the act of a fool. How many died for their countries in world war 2 when everyone once an enemy is now friends? What then was the point of all the people rushing onto Omaha beach dying a few seconds later?
If you willingl let yourself be slaughtered out of hand for your belief your country's worth it, you're an idiot. All wars eventually end and everyone makes nice. I'd rather wait for diplomacy to work as it always does than take up arms and kill or let myself be killed in some pointless gesture.
Diplomacy is always
preferable.
Diplomacy in connection with irredeemable religious fanatics and theocrats with designs upon you-and-yours is virtually
impossible.
There is a time for peace, and there is a time to fight.
We (America), as a country, need to get ourselves back into a more sensible frame of mind, in judging when to fight, and when not to.
We also need to foster and maintain the courage to (a) recognize enemies and (b) fight them, as a matter of both preemption and actual defense, when appropriate.
Neither a program of Continual Warfare nor a program of Continual Diplomacy will work in this Real World of ours.
The trick is to know when to employ one or the other, and in what sequence, and for how long, depending upon the audience and the threat vector.
As to your assertions about the necessity of defending our country during WWII, well, you can assert your denial until you're blue in the face.
Most folks know better and will dismiss such claims - some out of hand, and some after serving-up decisive supporting argument.
But that's another conversation, in another thread or forum.