[Strategerist]

Crucial point is that the number of war deaths has been in continuous decline every decade since the 1940s I always get a kick out of posting stuff that annoys the apocalyptikooks.

Also is a lesson in not letting your thinking be led around by the media; just because you get technicolor coverage on a dozen networks 24 hours a day of every car bomb in Iraq and every belt bomb in Israel doesn't mean the world is getting more violent by the day.

[Leg Olam]

I can't remember which Native American Cheif said it but he had it right when he said, "Glory is like a dead fish. It glitters and shines in the moonlight but still stinks."

[jb6]

Chechnya is not an independent country thus the war is Russia. There is also active hostilities in Georgia, through out its break away provinces.

[jb6]

the number of war deaths has been in continuous decline every decade since the 1940s

Sure, it's hard to beat 60 million in 6 years.

[untenured]

The Remnants of War.

[jaydubya2]

It's Bush's fault. We have to take action, NOW!

[DarkSavant]

But now we can kill half the world's population in less than a day.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Considering Vietnam, Cambodia, Rwanda, The Sudan, Ethiopa, Cuba, etc. and the treatment of journalists and Christians in China even today--some wars are declared and others are not....

Some are comforted by denying the reality of war.

Some are camouflaged by denying the reality of war.

"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
-- Chairman Mao Tse-Tong, in his book "On Protracted War"

"A really great people, proud and high-spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor."
-- Theodore Roosevelt

"We make war that we may live in peace."
-- Aristotle

"No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence."
-- Woodrow Wilson

"To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
-- George Washington

[expat_panama]

Great post!

There're sad sacks crawling all over the place trying desperately to find bad news where none exists.  I'll confess to being a 'peacenik' from way back but in my old age I prefer the kind in the Uzi slogan "peace through superior fire power". 

I mean, whatever works.

[Names Ash Housewares]

Peace through strength works.

Liberals on the wrong side of history again.

[Wiz]

I think most of the listed would be called disputes/conflicts rather than wars, unless it was to mean civil war. The only ongoing war in international terms between two states may be the war between India and Pakistan on Kashmir.