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All Quiet on the Western Front Get Off the Fence Debate
 * YES ||  War Should Be Avoided At All Cost  ||  NO  ||
 * Source 1:

Butler, Smedley. "War is a Racket." // WanttoKnow.info //. N.p., 1935. Web. 13 Dec 2011. .

“War is a Racket Chapter One”: . "Is a War Necessary? Why Now? Who Agrees?."  //UCLA Department of Epidemiology School of// // Public health //. Los Angeles Times, 16/feb/2003. Web. 13  Dec 2011.  “Is a War Necessary? Why Now? Who Agrees?” **=
 * Many Americans and their allies say that the war in Iraq is necessary unless Iraq changes course and gives a full accounting of all their biological and chemical weapons.
 * They hope to over throw Hussein
 * Many people agree with the reasoning of the war
 * Most governments agree that Hussein/Iraq is a threat ||
 * Source 2:

Wendell, Berry. "The Failure of War ." //Common Dreams Building Progressive Community//. CommonDreams.org, 2002. Web. 13 Dec 2011. .

“The Failure of War”: . "Edward N. Luttwak, "Give war a chance" Foreign Affairs." . N.p., aug 1999. Web. 13 Dec 2011. .
 * National defense through war always leads to some type of national defeat.
 * Modern day wars, with nuclear and other harsh weapons, damages the world.
 * People have a fixation on war and the “romantic ideals” of war, so they send young men to fight and die.
 * Millions of people die because of war ||  || Source 2:

“Give War a Chance”:
 * It can resolve political conflicts and create peace.
 * Many times war is fought in order to protect one’s country
 * If the United Nations helped the strong defeat the weak faster and more decisively, it would actually enhance the peacemaking potential of war.
 * You must make war to make peace ||

** Should War Be Avoided at all Cost? **  I am for the idea that war should be avoided at all cost. This is because war is mainly a way to work out political issues, so, if that’s true, why do we have to involve innocent lives? In my opinion, there is no real reason we should go to war, although I can see the oppositions stand. It’s true that war is also fought in order to protect our country or make a difference, but can’t we use peaceful methods to accomplish these goals? Also, when I was looking through the articles, I noticed that there are some people who profit from war and others who go into debt because of it, but the biggest thing I noticed is that hundreds of people, soldiers and civilians, die because of war. If you think about it, if we all decided to avoid war at all cost then there would be no reason that we would have to use war to protect our country, since there wouldn’t be any real threats to protect it from. So, in my opinion, war should be avoided no matter what.