Europe, The United States, and war.

I just started reading The United States Of Europe, which argues that the EU will become a formidable superpower while the US's power will simultaneously decline. And it got me thinking about the EU and their desire to work together towards a combined success, pledging never again to engage in war in Europe. Now, that's easy to say, every country will prance on the international stage preaching peace and love and bunnies, we all know this is utter shite.

So I got to thinking about European war casualties, which might explain things. Just using WWII figures as a guide, maybe we can see a pattern.

US casualties - .32% of the population, none on US soil.
UK casualties - .94% of the population
Germany - 10.77% of the population
Not to mention the countries with holocaust deaths, the worst being Poland, at 16.1%.

The US has been internally stable since the Civil War, but happily starts wars of choice abroad.

I guess what I'm asking is, does it take massive wars with massive casualties at home to get folks to work toward a lasting peace?

And by logical extension, would an all inclusive world war, fought on every continent, finally knock enough sense into enough people to cut this crap out? At least till the aliens come knocking.

Dennis brings articles of impeachment on the dark lord of the sith

You want evidence? Here ya go.

As to the arguments against this I say bullshit.

Argument number 1, this is just revenge for Clinton. Just because the previous President was impeached doesn't mean that the following administration is immune from accountability. I didn't hear any Democrats blame Clinton's impeachment as 'revenge for Nixon'.

Number 2, "Impeachment is off the table". I understand Nancy's call for productive action instead of tying everyone up in hearings, but these are crimes, real crimes. What if you called the police and they told you they had better things to do? This is not something that is negotiable, like pork projects or a bridge to nowhere.