I've always despised war, probably because I was a product of it and experienced the dislocation of losing a country when i was very young. It effected and shaped in many ways, my perception of the world.
With that said, it's also boring, in a way, since what I believed it to be had so little to do with building and creating something.
It's usually a necessity for developed nations to engage in war either to maintain status quo or hedge for problems further down the road.
It's been quite an education. It's very sophisticated from a technological standpoint and also strategies and the whole concept, parsing out of different types of engagement.
In the end, not really sure how successful this type of beginning (the "new" counterinsurgency) might be since people are wary of long term commitments esp. with the type of election cycle the US has... and maybe it's still too new.
A healthy representative democracy is the most difficult thing to build and maintain since with human nature all roads lead to corruption without systemic and structural controls that are only possible with a strong centralized federal govt.
It took decades to get S. Korea and Taiwan on track. Both countries were known for their human rights violations into the 1980s, when the uprising of middle class housewives (more or less) started to change things.
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