There are also people who say "better Red than dead," people who would rather face the possibility of slavery - for ourselves or others -- than the certainty of a fight, with all its attendant blood and misery.
I'm sorry to say it, but to me that is nothing but sheer cowardice and refined selfishness.
We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide is peace when you get right down to it. The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of "no war at any cost" are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew.
It would be nice if there were a way around this. History, not merely my opinion, shows us that there is not. If all you are willing to do is think happy thoughts, then those are the consequences. If you want justice, and freedom, and safety, and prosperity, then sometimes you have to fight for them.
I still don't know why so many people haven't figured this out.
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