Let's not repeat the past

Although I agree with my classmate Michael " insight the U.S. government "on ISIS being stopped I don't think that going to war with them and attacking them like they have been attacking us and everyone else in the world is the best strategy. I'm not saying for the U.S. And everyone that has been attacked by them not do anything about it. We should fight back but war is not the answer to it. Make a treaty like our great fathers did.Have we not learned anything about ww1 and ww2 and any kind of war that we have been in? We lost so many lives, so any of our men taken captured and tortured and those that have survived coming back seen as heroes but broken inside from watching so much pain and people die that they develop PTSD. 

There's a quote by Cassandra Clare "the mortal instruments "the last book that talks about war and learning from mistakes and not going through them anymore. Growing up my dad had always told me " I don't care if you get in a fight but don't throw the first punch or the second. If someone is bugging you and pushing you let them push you let them hit you and talk to them but after that if that doesn't work then fight back." I don't expect us to live in an utopia but a world better than what we live in not thinking that war and violence is the answer to everything. But if that doesn't work then war would be the next step .