Michael Garibaldi:  Why is that we always break up our history by the the wars , not the years of peace ? The Hundred Years War , War of _ 1812 _ , the first three World Wars , the Dilgar War , the War of the Shining Star , the Minbari War , the Shadow War . Why the war and not the peace ? Because it 's exciting , and because on some level people like to see something big fall apart and explode from the inside out . And right now , John , we 're that something .