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9/11 was terrible, and I have deep sympathy for all who were affected. Its a rare thing for our country to suffer direct affects of violence at home because of our isolation.
I am a pacifist and I believe that we should only use force in self-defense. The cycle of violence is only perpetuated when you go after your attackers' blood lines.
I think that our reaction to 9/11 regarding Iraq is wholly foolish and dangerous. I agree that a strong military and foreign policy reaction was warranted and necesary. But we really should have gone after the source of the attacks. We should have focused more on Afganistan and the Arab extremists who actually attacked us. Instead we have propogated a nascent worldwide religious war by invading another country of people with the same color skin as the attackers. This has the affect of making previously-neutral muslims side with their brethren against us in an induced holy war.
I marched in protest in San Francisco a few times prior to the invasion of iraq because I thought it was wrong. A few hundred thousand people in the area seemed to agree with me and marched as well. If we spent a fraction of the money we have on invading Iraq, and used it instead for food and aid as gifts in the middle east, then the world would already be a very different place. Kill your enemies with kindness is a better solution. I think that we should have taken a different course, and I abhor our government for the choices they made. So no, I don't support our leaders for their idiotic and deadly errors. I feel that I knew the right thing to do, and they didn't listen to me. So I don't feel represented at all, but defied, misrepresented, and ignored by our leaders.
I realize that many in our country feel very strongly that I am totally wrong, and that I am missing very important points. I argue with my dad about it every Christmas when I visit. He thinks that muslims simply hate Americans and just want to kill us, regardless of what we do, so why not just kill them back. I disagree with him because I care about all people. He thinks that I am a fool.
But as a pacifist, I feel compelled to express my position.
I am a pacifist and I believe that we should only use force in self-defense. The cycle of violence is only perpetuated when you go after your attackers' blood lines.
I think that our reaction to 9/11 regarding Iraq is wholly foolish and dangerous. I agree that a strong military and foreign policy reaction was warranted and necesary. But we really should have gone after the source of the attacks. We should have focused more on Afganistan and the Arab extremists who actually attacked us. Instead we have propogated a nascent worldwide religious war by invading another country of people with the same color skin as the attackers. This has the affect of making previously-neutral muslims side with their brethren against us in an induced holy war.
I marched in protest in San Francisco a few times prior to the invasion of iraq because I thought it was wrong. A few hundred thousand people in the area seemed to agree with me and marched as well. If we spent a fraction of the money we have on invading Iraq, and used it instead for food and aid as gifts in the middle east, then the world would already be a very different place. Kill your enemies with kindness is a better solution. I think that we should have taken a different course, and I abhor our government for the choices they made. So no, I don't support our leaders for their idiotic and deadly errors. I feel that I knew the right thing to do, and they didn't listen to me. So I don't feel represented at all, but defied, misrepresented, and ignored by our leaders.
I realize that many in our country feel very strongly that I am totally wrong, and that I am missing very important points. I argue with my dad about it every Christmas when I visit. He thinks that muslims simply hate Americans and just want to kill us, regardless of what we do, so why not just kill them back. I disagree with him because I care about all people. He thinks that I am a fool.
But as a pacifist, I feel compelled to express my position.
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