Anti-War Protest A Natural State Of Affairs

09/27/2005

Paul Munnis

If politics is the tool by which society is directed to a moral lifestyle and if ethics exists to help us to find the middle course of moral living, then anti-war protest is both proper and inevitable.

It is proper because a government that sets a course of perpetual killing of their enemies is acting immorally hence wrong.

It is inevitable because governments who have disagreements with other governments need to develop responsible alternatives to war. This is especially true today when most war is the result of trade dispute. To regulate this we created a UN and it is failing us as a result of internal corruption over war profiteering.

This isn’t to say that war isn’t ever justified as morally right, but rather to say that war must always be the last resort and that the objectives of war must be limited and not open ended.

Thus to me the anti-war movement in America is inevitable. Iraq is a war over trade (oil) and the goals are not succinct and limited but rather are open-ended and seemingly eternal. America is using its military to seize a commodity and to extend empire.

Government officials know this and they know that resistance to ongoing and continuous war is naturally limited in both time and scope.

Pro-war citizens are not your most moral or ethical citizens and they often have monetary gain at the root of their agenda. Close inspection will show many profiteers at work in the mechanisms of the Iraqi War. They should be treated as rats feeding off of the carnage of war.

We do not object to anti-war demonstrations in the case of the Iraq War. In fact we believe them to be both morally and ethically inevitable. There is no surprise at their happening and it is natural to expect these demonstrations to increase, to become more demanding and more violent, and to result in the killing of citizens and innocents whose only fault was that they got in the way of a rat pack on a feeding frenzy.

In time these forces cause governments to come to their senses as they see a guillotine blade being sharpened by a public intent on overthrowing their government or a hangman’s noose being fitted out by a crowd demanding justice and return to moral social behavior by their government.

Like the Vietnam War this War in Iraq is now running on borrowed time and will have to end. These are the lessons of history.