Ofelia Vives Gladys Porter High School English III AP 11th Grade Why fighting when there is communication War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope good may come of it. While the killing of a person is a crime and it’s punishable, but indeed war is not even though thousands of innocents die for it. War is something that happens when communication fails between two or more nations. Reasons why war occurs varies from country from country, but often is generated by territorial, religious, and economically purposed, and these factors could be easily solved diplomatically without the need of war.
Primary purpose why nations fight each other is for territorial expansion, this happen when a country wants to take control over the land of another country. Most nations have a viewpoint that the more land a nation has the more powerful they are. An example of this type of this factor; takes place in the Middle East; the War of Independence in Israel1948. This war was fought by the Jews and their Arabs counterparts because Arabs living Israel did not want a portion of the country wanted all. After Israel declared its independence was attacked by its neighbors.
Since that day, Israel has been territorial struggle not just with its neighbors and the Palestine but with world opinions as it continues to hold on the land that is biblical theirs. Religious beliefs is a factor that generates war, since the beginning of time countries have gone to war over the fact that the religious belief system of one’s country reigned supreme and when the other country doesn’t summit to the other, then both nation entered to a war and the defeated country would be assimilated in to the other’s belief system.
For instance, since the cruxification of Jesus Christ, Christians and Muslins went on war with one another for centuries. For the longest time, the war between these two religions would be fought over the control of Jerusalem. The Muslims would win; the Christians would revenge to reclaim Jerusalem as theirs to practice their religion freedom. Economically growth is another basic reason why nations go to war each other. Countries want to prosper economically regardless of the other country devastation; they only care in how war is going to benefit them (becoming rich and powerful).
World War II is involved with this factor; for example, the Japanese attacked the Manchuria for oil, they only wanted to take control over to benefit from this product. The United States went to war, because Pearl Harbor was attacked, but the major reason was that a depression was hitting to hard. At the same time to aid the war effort many programs were instituted in the country for people to work in factories to produce weapons, and they work to aid in the victory for the United States.
The result of this war is that the country over come the depression and strived financially and economically. War is an instrument to expand economic power by destroying the national institutions, and people of the victimized nation. Wars separate and destroy families, joy, and happiness that God has granted us, and wars only fill people’s heart with hatred, fear, and deception for ours neighbor instead of love, and unity.
Why fighting for territorial, when the earth doesn’t belong to any one, it’s God’s and we have no right to posses it neither to built artificial borders. Why fighting for religious belief, we are born free to choose what ever we want to believe and we have no business to change people’s mind. Why fighting to become economically prosperous when we can generates jobs for people to work in, instead of wars that cost money that sometimes they don’t have and brings only depts.
