Just walked through the Imperial War Museum in London with my oldest daughter Lauren. You start in the basement wandering through perfectly maintained relics, images and exhibitions of the war history of England. The horrors of WWI and WWII are the most evident and I am convinced that we are led to feel that these horrors should be avoided at all costs. An interactive simulation, complete with putrid smell of the WWI trenches, or the experience during the London Blitzes (again with a horrible simulated smell), really leave you hating and fearing war.
But then we are presented with perhaps the most compelling evidence that sometimes war is not only just, but an honourable means to an end. The Holocaust Exhibition pulls at every possible emotion you might have. You are shocked, saddened, and sickened. And of course reminded that war albeit horrible, is sometimes necessary.
The start of the Second World War was due to the tyrannical racism of one person and subsequently his followers. It is really that simple, and it can happen again that simply. So even though I am not drawing a 100% comparison to modern warfare in the Middle East, I am willing to say that if unchecked, Radical Islam if organized and given access to resources and legitimacy, would probably do the same. Sadly to the same attacked race of WWII.
That's enough for me to support the war in Afghanistan.
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