THOUGHTS ON PEOPLE REFUSING WAR ARE HEROES

Bill Hessell shared your blog post on Google+ At times the real war heroes are the people refusing war, as this author is professing. Courageous people will take strong action when necessary, will not avoid dealing with conflict situations, but that does not mean that war is the required, preferred, or productive response. War is the least preferred response, an admission of failure in all other means of resolving conflict. It can take real strength to resist resort to war. Our recent experience conclusively shows the failure of war. Iraq is a more violent place now than when we launched our warfare there, more sectarian killing, no stable government that is a reliable ally and can survive without our assistance. Afghanistan is still torn with strife and violence after 12 years of our military operations there, the government would collapse without our support, and our combat there is endangering our relations with adjacent nations. In other countries currently, where has war helped--Syria, Yemen, Libya? Are there any prospects for a positive resolution? The failure of war is evidenced by a recent proposal by our government to build a massive prison to hold those captured in continuing wars, the prison to be built in Yemen. So that is our plan, military bases scattered throughout the world, and now prisons to hold the vanquished in war. More a preparation for permanent war, than for a prospect for peace. THE REAL WAR HEROES: PEOPLE REFUSING WAR