Remembrance Sunday

[bronchitikat]

Remembering

Regular readers may have realised that I am a bit of a pacifist.  Well, how can you treat people as people if you're going in with tanks, guns, bombs etc.   & what about the people who have to try & live throught all that, then rebuild their lives & countries because they live there.  They can't get shipped home - whether in boxes,

Comments

Re: Landmines

[bronchitikat]

Oh I know there are no simple answers. & I'm not suggesting people of good intent should do nothing. I think a lot more investigation of alternatives to 'going & trying to punch the other guy on the nose' might be useful

on pacifism

[meghanrox956]

i hope i never experince war personally, but i dunno, call me ignorant (i prolly am) but it just seems that there is something to be said for "puttin ur money where ur mouth is" if u will.

i mean what if no one stood up to hitler, only brute force could have ever taken him down...
and it took 2 h bombs for japan to surrender...

the war in iraq... oh heaven only knows i dont have a strong opinion on the matter, but i am glad saddam is out of power...
i would like iraq to not be horribly impovershed and war-torn...

Re: on pacifism

[bronchitikat]

Yes, Hitler did have to be resisted. Though his rise to power was partly as a result of the punitive conditions imposed upon Germany after the First World War

[huckleberrybud]

that makes two of us...my heart is always praying for peace and for the poor poor people that have to live in these countries that are infested with war...and i pray for those poor souls that have to fight...the boys that die so young fighting for something i am not sure they actually are old enough to understand and believe in...the fathers that leave behind families...the sons whose mothers and fathers bring them into the world to have them be taken away for something so pointless and violent...i could go on...my heart bleeds for all of these poor human beings...and my soul cries...i am so sorry...god bless them...