February Monthly Connection

Obviously, it is in my opinion that warfare and all components of warfare are not beneficial to any society that it affects. As shown in A Thousand Splendid Suns warfare not only affects those that are involved in the war, but those at home too. Whether it be by Fariba's loss of her two beloved sons and the upsetting of her life or by Laila's loss of her parents by the actual bombshells of war, war is devastating.

For example, I have a family friend that shot a mother and child during the war in Iraq, and now he has numerous emotional problems. He couldn't look at his own family because he could only see the family that he had killed. This is only one such example of how war affects people very heavily.

I personally believe that war is necessary. It is necessary to solve some conflicts and fix some problems. There are some aspects of war that are beneficial to society, obviously the problem-solving is one of those aspects. However, for the individual members of a society, war is a disturbance and a very hard thing to deal with. It is also very damaging to the infrastructure of the area that the war is being fought in. Because of this, I disagree on one plane with war, but since it is necessary to solving some problems, my stance on it is that it is a necessary evil.