War should be the very last resort of any reasonable and mature nation, something not to be taken lightly, especially for countries such as America, which has not only a moral responsibility to lead by example, but also because America as a military force, is far and above the most powerful, the most sophisticated, and has the most awesome military strength the world has ever known. Another fundamental thing about war that should never be discounted is that it is relatively easy to destroy, ravage, and rape a foreign country, but it is a far more difficult and challenging task to build up a foreign country, to assist and aid that foreign country so that in fundamental ways it can be a better place to live and to work in. In short, it can be said that war is destructive in all of its phases, destructive of materials as well as our fellow human beings, although sometimes war is necessary, often times it is not.
One way for America to cut down on wars and its unnecessary foreign meddling is to cut the profit out of war. In point of fact, war should never be an opportunity for private enterprise, and especially for large multi-national corporations to profit from death and ruination, yet war is very profitable for many corporations as well as a proven path of advancement for certain military personnel. If one was to take the profit out of war, for a certainty, there would be a lot less war, because without the spoils of war, those corporations that make it their ply and trade to gain from it would quickly lose their interest in it.
While it can be said, that most corporations are in existence in order to make money and that therefore the taking away of any profit would disincentive them and subsequently in a time of real need, that they would not rally around the cause, that could be readily mitigated. First off, most corporations are interested in increasing their size, even at the expense of profits; secondly, most corporations love monies spent on R&D, especially if those monies are being compensated by the government; thirdly, a very small profit, perhaps tied to the three-year treasury bill rate, should be enough to provide some profit compensation that would be acceptable to those corporations.
Another critical issue that is very upsetting when it comes to war and the profits that are made by corporations involved in the war effort, is that there are two very important things that are often pushed aside or ignored in the public debate which are the huge dollar deficits that are typically run up to fund the war as well as the lasting cost and damages to the soldiers themselves that fought in our wars. Our country's war-time deficits must be paid, sooner or later, and unfortunately this means that future generations pay for the wars of our past, and if those wars were unnecessary or unneeded or un-debated in the first place, the more shame and dishonor that should be associated with it. Even worse, is the lifetime cost of our young soldiers that come back home to America with psychological and mental damages, and/or physical injuries, to which some of those injuries those soldiers will never become whole from. The cost of taking care of these veterans is once again, put upon the shoulders of the public itself, while those that profit from the war, are blithely unconcerned, while taking pleasure in counting what most would consider to be: blood-money.