Smart people consider wars to be preventable.

Smarter people consider some wars to be unavoidable but are still to be fought as if one's very homestead is threatened.

Well they're avoidable unless the collective homestead is threatened...
or our business interests offshore...
or our fuel supply...
or our coffee and banana supply...
or our raw material sources...
or to prevent the dominos from falling...
or our treaty obligations...
or to prevent weapons of mass destruction...
or to keep the military industrial complex profitable...
or "to be determined". :eyebrow: