Peace Kills
I started off the morning behind a Kerry supporter in a Ford Excursion with three bumperstickers. The first was for Kerry, the second was “Peace: Back by popular demand” and the last was “Mission Nothing Accomplished” with the word “Mission” crossed out. The driver must have been an ex Deaniac judging by the stickers and the value of the SUV. There I was puttering along behind him on the Schukyll Expressway in my Honda, appreciating the irony that here was someone driving one of the largest SUVs in the country who thinks he’s a liberal.
Back by popular demand my butt… Here’s the truth:
Are we at peace?
Considering that the number of American casualties in Iraq have seriously fallen, one could argue it. But let’s indulge ourselves in a little morning mental exercise:
Say we pull out completely from Iraq.
Are we at peace then?
How about if we withdraw American troops completely from the Middle East?
The question becomes: Are you at peace while you have an enemy that wants to destroy you because you exist?
I don’t think so.
We aren’t at peace, and it isn’t back. And if I demand anything it’s action.
Currently there is genocide occurring in the Darfur region of Sudan. People are dying under “Peace” – yet would that idiot in the SUV support military action to stop the genocide?
Peace kills. It killed the Armenians in 1915. It killed the Jews during the Shoah (WW2 was NOT fought to stop the Holocaust one should remember). It killed the Cambodians in 1975-79, the Tutsis in 1994, the Bosnians, the Kosovars and now the Sudanese.
Peace kills. I hadn’t realized how true that statement was until I saw that SUV.
Thanks for the insight, bozo…
