An image grab taken from a video released by Islamic State group's official Al-Raqqa site via YouTube allegedly shows Islamic State (IS) group recruits riding in armed trucks in an unknown location.
Noah Feldman, Bloomberg: Why We Fight: Now and 10,000 Years Ago
Is there a fundamental difference between war fought for reasons of belief and war fought out of self-interest? Is one more primitive than the other, or morally superior?
These deep questions are raised by the finding of a mass grave from 10,000 years ago by the shores of Kenya’s Lake Turkana, now the earliest such site known.
They also resonate in the debate about how seriously to engage Islamic State, and whether to employ means of warfare that would actually eliminate the group instead of just contain it. In particular, the fight against Islamic State involves the question of whether it’s good or right to go to war because the enemy is morally so bad.
Taken together, the battles of 10,000 years ago and today can help us clarify our answers.
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3 comments:
All that has changed since the time when we were all afraid of the tiger in the bushes are our tools.
Lol, the only one that's actually fighting daesh properly is Russia, the US seems to be very un-efficient and in-effective at fighting daesh
Our Motives?
Not living under sharia?
Being able to make interstellar travel?
Not condemning 1/2 our potential to be wasted?
Not living on a dustball earth to eventually become extinct, because of a bunch of retarded primates!
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