“War. What is a good for? Oy, don’t get me started.”
Killing bad guys who start wars, just for one.
Stopping them from making more wars.
Technological advancements that come about in the course of winning the war.
Defeating evil ideologies, such as Nazism, Communism, Islamic Jihad and naked territorial ambition.
Magnanimous victors can develop entirely new and sometimes better relationships with their erstwhile foes, such as the Japanese and the Germans, the North and the South, or not, such as the sick relationship that existed between the British the the Boers for many decades, or the North and the South.
Yup. War has 1001 uses, most of them very good. So if you’re a Hatfield or a McCoy, don’t be shy. Feud to your hearts’ content.
It beats watching wars on TV.
This was a favorite in my youth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh-TKJTCtnw
Amen!