Assignment 9: Katie Chen

When I was eight years old, I wrote a letter to Santa and asked for world peace. I didn't ask for the newest toy or brand new clothes because I genuinely thought we lived in a perfect world with the potential for world peace. Years later, I now realize that our world isn't so perfect after all. Riddled with injustices, threats, and violence, war will always be a possible threat looming over us in our world today.

I do believe that there is an alternative war. I believe that foreign diplomacy should always be tried first when dealing with foreign issues. War should be a last resort to any problem. However, there are times when war in inevitable. In that case, negotiating for days on end will lead to nothing. If one country is set on initiating a war, there's really nothing another country can do to try and avoid war.