Many beautiful and truly amazing things have come from merciless dictators, destruction and war. Sure war always is a very sad thing for its time but it has always given the future a spectacle. I know I wouldn't last two fleeting seconds in a war, but its war that gave us the SR-71, the jet engine, nuclear power and ofcourse Dr. Strangelove.
See the lot who constituted the third world and see what they can take pride in now. It generally is either something that has always been there or something that people (who generally are historians from history) said existed. I can't say they should all have taken sides in the cold war, they had more pressing things like nation-building to do. All I'm doing, is pointing out that the war did the others some good. This was the war that started the space race and put man in space fifty-odd years after his wobbly first flight and then onto the moon. Sure, you will say "India played a major role in WW-II, what good did it do us?". Apparently, after the war India emerged as the world's 4th largest Industrial power which might have played some-role in leading to our independence. Indirectly, its war that gave you the french wine, the Italian suit, brought motor-racing to this country, and may-be in a way gave us motor racing itself.
It's not like there isn't enough suffering already. But history always seems to show us that mankind has never wafted into a more developed society. Rather, we got here with a bang, a little smoke and some damage. The next war, when it comes, will exterminate the human race and most life they say, but a stagnant pond will kill all life in it anyway. War might not be the solution, but it might be just the problem that will bring us the solution. Ironically Mars has always been the place where we have searched for life. Mars is the God of war.
