I feel that Politicians should be skilled in war, more mental awareness than physically skilled. I say this because if they are going to start a war with someone, they should have knowledge about the pros and cons. Apparently we were missing this when we decided to go into the war in w/ Iraq. If they were trained to understand war and its outcomes, a religious point would have been brought up. They started more than just a fight over terrorism; it has become so much deeper than that. According to Mach., he says, "the prince must read histories and in them study the deeds of great men; he must see how they conducted themselves in wars; he must examine the reasons for their victories and for their defeats in order to avoid the latter and to imitate the former". Basically what he says here is what our politicians of the U.S do not do. I don't feel that modern war is similar to wars in Machiavelli's era. The wars today are over different issues and President Bush seems to be oblivious to everything going on around him. In Machiavelli's era, war was the only way of settling things but today there are other options to go to.
The fact that President Bush was reading Machiavelli's book does not surprise me. Bush is probably trying to make himself feel better because Mach. States that, "It is wiser to live with the reputation of a miser, which produces reproach without hatred, than to be forced to incur the reputation of rapacity, which produces reproach along with hatred,.." President Bush is just trying to justify his stupid decisions.
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This post creates and excellent point with excellent quotes to support it. I agree with Machiavelli's statement about studying and learning from former leaders so as to immitate them in their successes and to avoid repeating their failures. George Bush doesn't really know what he is doing at all so he is just putting on a show to make it look like he is studying Mach. and trying to succeed. I bet he never even opened the book.
i strongly agree with this post. i agree with the fact that our leaders should be mentally aware of the affects that war has on people both in their country and in the other country. I think that this also has to go along with having all the right reason to go into war. In Iraq, it seems that we really dont have a reason to be there anymore. it has made our country almost exhausted and it shows how we have really turned on the idea of being in Iraq.
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