Donald Ian Rankin
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Wed Jul-28-10 08:50 AM
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The best justification for warfare I have ever read |
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Here war is harmless like a monument: a telephone is talking to a man; flags on a map declare that troops were sent; a boy brings milk in bowls. There is a plan
For living men in terror of their lives who thirst at nine who were to thirst at noon, who can be lost and are, who miss their wives And, unlike an idea, can die too soon.
Yet ideas can be true, although men die: for we have seen a myriad faces Ecstatic from one lie,
And maps can really point to places where life is evil now. Nanking. Dachau.
W.H. Auden
I don't think there is anything worth going to war for. There are, however, things worth going to war against (although not many of them).
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zipplewrath
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Wed Jul-28-10 09:04 AM
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1. War is never worth it. |
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I don't think there is anything worth going to war for. There are, however, things worth going to war against (although not many of them)."
War is what you do after you missed all your chances to do the better thing.
If you are at war, it is because you ignored something so long, that was all you had left to do.
"Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the presence of justice" - MLK
When we ignore our chances to create justice, we ensure or need to fight wars.
We need to create the institutions of peace, just as much, nay MORE than we create the institutions of war. We need the acadamies. We need the industries. We need the tools. We need the traditions. We need to make the movies, build the memorials, and celebrate the holidays of peace. We need the peace monument on the National Mall. And we need the cemetaries of the people who fought for peace, and fought and died for our rights, without picking up a gun.
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MerryBlooms
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Wed Jul-28-10 09:12 AM
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2. From one of my most favorite |
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Eddie Izzard; Do you have a flag? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEx5G-GOS1kNWS (not work safe) language
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MyNameGoesHere
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Wed Jul-28-10 09:17 AM
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3. War is proof that humankind |
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stopped evolving shortly after discovering fire.
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