Rushing into the war

A hundred years ago, this week, over 1000 female peace activist gathered from around the world to call for an end to war. The extra ordinary meeting, Known as the international congress of  women, took place as world war 1^st raged across the globe and mark the formation of the women’s international league suffragist Dr. Aletta Jacobs. The event took place in the Netherlands because of its neutral position during 

world war 1^st.Two future nobel peace prize winner took part in the US delegation: Jane Addams, the co-founder of Hall House and the sociologist Emily Green Balch.

Another veteran former US defense secretary Chuck Hugel, Who served in Vietnam, said “It is interesting to me that many of those who want to rush this country into war and think it would be so quick and easy don’t know anything about war” he also said “They come at it from an intellectual Perspective vs having sat in jungles or foxholes and watched their friends get their heads blown off''

Politician start war and war is a distraction.