What is it good for-McKenna Elliott

There is an appropriate time for war, but that appropriate time is not as often as war is actually initiated. I feel like we as Americans, as well as other countries, initiate war when it is not necessary. For example, it would be necessary to go to war if there were threats and attempts to be in combat on American soil because this is a form of defense. There are times when it is completely unnecessary for us to go to war, such as when we are "defending our allies". Yes they are our friends and we should be nice to them to keep them as friends, but we cannot literally fight their battles. That is none of our business.

An alternative to such actions could be something like treaties and compromises that will cease the combat and lead to peace or even just acting neutral towards each other. I realize that it's not exactly this easy, but this way would be much less expensive, many lives would be saved rather than taken in war, and it keeps us neutral and unified as a country because wartime affects those back home in the states too because of conflicting views and opinions about war.