Reply #9: Nixon knew better [View All]

[Tom Rinaldo]

Most of us here understand that, in the world as we know it, sometimes War is unavoidable. And sometimes War is more than unavoidable, sometimes War is even a moral responsibility. The United States avoided military involvement in Rwanda during the Genocide there, but that wasn't the moral thing to do. We should have fought to stop it.

Some individual wars still have to be fought, but the solution to "War" with a capital "W" will always only be Peace, and everything Peace entails. Revenge cycles can last for generations. In some cases they survive for centuries. We saw that in the Balkans. We see that in the Middle East. A threat to the United States has to be serious and immanent before we consider unleashing violence in order to protect us from violence. The United States will not be able to intimidate those whom we view as adversaries from acquiring nuclear technology and/or nuclear weapons indefinitely. It doesn't matter how powerful we are. Israel got nukes, India got nukes, Pakistan got nukes, North Korea got nukes. Even South Africa got nukes and we didn't see it coming before they voluntarily gave them up. Escalating world tensions will not make us safer. Even Nixon knew that.