The Importance Of War

All of these excerpts are talking about wars and their bad effects. Wars have affected not just the economy, social life of a country but also brought pains and hurts. In fact, many countries went through wars to show and prove their power and to expand their territory. But people are the only ones who actually fight and sacrifice on the war battles for their family, their relatives, or even for themselves and because of some force’s ambition. These are the points have been mentioned in the excerpts. However, they do have some different points of views towards wars and how people are going to deal with it. In excerpt one, Helen Keller expresses that the purpose of every war is about exploitation. For example: “The Civil War was fought to decide

Randolph mentioned in his speech, “The machinery of government sets and enforces the drastic penalties; the minorities are either intimidated into silence”, he revealed how government set up a scene of a perfect loyalty, perfect uniformity government. Yet, behind the stage, only the one who have the most power get to speak up. No one actually knows the actual cost of the war but the estimation is high enough for us to pay back until our next generation. According to the article “Cost Of Wars In Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan To Reach $3.7 Trillion”, the author states, “The United States will have spent a total of $3.7 trillion on wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, costing 225,000 lives and creating 7.8 million refugees, by the time the conflicts end”. That is the cost of the American current wars in Iraq. Americans are willing to waste that much for a war while their citizens are suffering for many costs like medical or college tuition. Moreover, thousands of people who left their home to join the war also face the chance of never going to see their family again. Besides, the cost of 9/11 also reveals to be “$3 trillion to $5 trillion” and “$600 billion to $900 billion” for disability payment and health care