War

1.) Critically Evaluate Hedge's account for the reasons for War. Does his account have limited applicability or should it be regarded as a general theory for war?

Chris Hedges gives many reasons for war; but I will start at the top and work my way down. He states that we as a people ennoble war, that we turn it into entertainment. In all we forget what war is really about and the effects that it has on the people directly involved in it. He also says that civilians are somewhat attracted to war simply because those not involved in it view war as honorable and noble. Hedges argues that war is both an addiction to a drug that offers an unbeatable high and the thrill of not being responsible for the normal moral constrictions of socially acceptable life, but at the same time be something that pull together the combatants like no other experience can. Once war is begun, all morality goes out the window and the combatants can justify their actions in any way they see fit. A couple reasons he puts on the table for this is that the combatants