I’ve found that some people are inspired by the Pact’s existence and by the fact that our great-grandparents were able to create a public movement that brought it into existence.It is common to think of “war crimes” as improper conduct during a war, but not to think of the war itself as a crime. But it would be wrong to say the war achieved nothing. “You’re with us or against us,” they say, forgetting that one can demand accountability from one’s government without necessarily supporting a violent invasion by a foreign power.Obedience is a danger. A Congress member has put into the Congressional Record his recognition that the Kellogg-Briand Pact made war illegal. That they imagined they weren’t being listened to appears ridiculous if you read enough history. In fact we’ve collectively buried what was probably the single biggest news story of 1928: the creation of this treaty.With the creation of the peace pact, wars were avoided and ended.
‘If Bud says that,’ he remarked tactfully, ‘it must be true.’”.It’s funny: even when protesting government lies or government secrecy, people tend to fall for the lie that the government is ignoring you. But armament and hostility continued. The ads bragged about the use of real bullets, but the chances that any of the celebrities engaged in “war competition” on NBC’s “Stars Earn Stripes” were going to be shot and killed was essentially what it was for John Wayne as he promoted war while dodging it (even if nuclear weapons testing got him in the end). There are wealthy interests not profiting from weaponry or other war spending, and not profiting from a militarily enforced exploitation of foreign peoples. We must see one-sided slaughters for what they are and grow appropriately outraged. We must develop faith in ourselves and our power. (Impeachments after leaving office are possible and have been done; do a web search for “William Belknap”. Every year the United States spends, through various governmental departments, roughly $1.2 trillion on war preparations and war. We’re allowing global warming and other major environmental destruction to roll ahead. But I’m convinced we’d see a lot more activism if people knew how much they are listened to. Public service, whether mandatory or voluntary, could include options to work for foreign and internationally run programs as well as those based in the United States.
Kissinger broadcast that the United States would no longer demand that North Vietnamese troops withdraw concurrently with U.S. troops. Last year Iraq produced more oil than in any year since the first Gulf War.
We must also eliminate politics unless it on course w/ spirituality.Your email address will not be published.Time limit is exhausted. But racist thinking makes some of our friends and neighbors more accepting of wars against different-looking people. And success in eliminating the acceptance of war will go a great distance in the other direction, toward helping to reduce fear, xenophobia, environmental destructiveness, etc.I can’t say for sure whether empowering women—I mean en masse, not tokenism—would discourage war.
Fried defines war aims as "the desired territorial, economic, military or other benefits expected following successful conclusion of a war". We’re watching the concentration of wealth. Surely we could, with more reason, diagnose them as suffering from Blind Obedience Disorder.Remember the regretful drone pilot discussed above. The mentality that accepts war as an instrument of national policy would not vanish swiftly. We should understand the extent to which our opinions are shared by others. Virginia and West Virginia don’t go to war because they are both the United States. The book presents the march to invasion as reasonable and inevitable, while acknowledging: ‘Some countries, France and Germany, called for letting the inspectors continue searching for weapons.’ That’s the only hint of any opposition to war, despite the fact that there was enormous popular opposition to the war, culminating on February 15, 2003, the date which saw millions of people around the world demand that the United States not invade Iraq—if you’re keeping track, this was the largest protest in human history, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.This, of course, is a pattern in corporate textbooks: Conflate governments with the people; ignore social movements. Amending the Constitution to ban war would (if the Constitution were complied with) prevent any lesser law from legalizing war.But a treaty would do that too. We may be able to work on this together with people living near U.S. military bases—which is a fairly large percentage of the people on earth.Ending U.S. militarism wouldn’t eliminate war globally, but it would eliminate the pressure that is driving several other nations to increase their military spending.
On the 60th anniversary of the armistice in Korea, President Obama declared that war a “victory.” Millions of people were killed in Korea to accomplish exactly nothing, and 60 years later the commander in chief feels obliged to redefine that as a victory. We need their help, and they need ours, in eliminating nuclear weapons, weaponized drones, cluster bombs, and other instruments of death, as well as in closing military bases, and shutting down the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Ga., where so many assassins and torturers have been trained. We work and eat and sleep and play and garden and buy junk at the store and watch movies and go to baseball games and read books and make love, and we don’t imagine we can possibly be destroying a planet.
We need allies around the world. We may stop thinking of the driving force behind war as the nature of the beings on the front lines.
A campaign to ban weaponized drones could take advantage of the fact that drone strikes look more like murder to many people than do other forms of murder in war. And we already have one.It is little known and even less appreciated that the United States is party to a treaty that bans all war.
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