2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Answer for Bernie Supporters, from a Clinton Supporter [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Conscientious objectors are the best qualified to know when war is unavoidable.
My dad was a conscientious objector. He was dedicated to peace as are most conscientious objectors. War was not a game to him.
You know why?
It was the Korean War. He was a minister in a small, midwestern parish. It fell to him to comfort and pray with the families of the fallen. He not only did that in the Korean War, but also throughout WWII.
Conscientious objectors are the right people to decide on what wars must and must not be fought.
Conscientious objectors are often better informed about the human costs of war than other people.
On edit, I have to add that in the excitement of war times, we forget that war, when all is said and done, and when the battle is over, is about GRIEF.
War is just about grief. The grief of not being able to resolve conflict without killing. The grief of losing a family member or a friend. The grief of homeless people. The grief of staggering about in rubble. The grief. That's what war is about, and we forget it at our peril.
Anyway, good to have you back FrenchiCat. Maybe you have teen here all along and I just didn't see your posts. Anyway . . . .
Hope you stick around.