Is it our own moral ineptitude that drives us to war?

Question

In this question, I do not intend to justify any act that any one person of any country could consider to be a war crime?

Answer 1

If you look at clintons morals while scurrying around to cover up Monicagate,Vince Foster and James MacDougal and letting 8 attacks(9if we count Oklahoma)kill US citizens,then yes you can say it is moral ineptetude along with a past president who tryed to save face and lost our azzzzzzz

Answer 2

"The first casualty of War is Truth" is certainly true even in the information age.  Everyone is entitled to their views of morality, however it is the lack of knowledge of foreign lands that allows government officials to propagate lies that lead to war.

Propaganda can convince a nation that it is their moral duty to wage a war.  These techniques have been effectively used in the past and are being used today.  The fact that propaganda is used to get support for a war does not reflect on the merits of that war but it does make it harder to evaluate that war.

Answer 3

It could be said Our own moral ineptitude  keeps us from going to war as well.

How many mass killings need to happen in Africa before we say go in to stop it?

Answer 4

No. It is not moral ineptitude, for morality is relative to one's perspective, and many allow emotions to create that. Some think that if someone is going to hit you, the best thing to do is find out why they did it once they have been struck. Others think that if someone is going to hit them, one should beat that person into submission and then negotiate from there. It isn't moral to allow someone who is determined to strike you, rendering you unable to defend yourself or yours, when it is clear that they intend to.

Answer 5

no...it is our lack of vision of the big picture that let problems coming our way go unfixed, and by the time they get here the only real solution to fix them is war, when IF we had dealt with them in the beginning we could have just fix them with other lesser means...!

example: our unwillingness to kill Osama in the 90's by Clinton....well, now it is bitting us in the behind, isn't it?

don't put off until tomorrow what you should be doing today!