February 1, 2009
War . . . What Is It Good For? (Part 1)
By Karen J. Diefendorf  Maybe you remember the protest song from a generation ago, “War (What Is It Good For?).” The answer, of course, was . . . “absolutely nothin”!” I would debate that, as would many other veterans and citizens. The song points out many horrors of war, while assuming there are no horrors in “peace at any price.” No one longs for peace and the absence of war more than the men and women serving in the armed forces””the people who fight the wars. In my years in the military, I never knew any military leader who
