Conscience and War
Military service requires principles, convictions, values
The Lost Of War, by Roger A. Blum, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.1
War is destructive in multiple ways. Millennia of suffering should have engrained that in us. Unfortunately, we are a thick-headed, stiff-necked species.
The illegal, treacherous attacks on Iran during peace negotiations and the concomitant attacks by the POTUS/Netanyahu military alliance on Iran, Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank are disturbing to the nth degree given the astronomical suffering on civilians in terms of lives lost, injuries, destruction of homes, loss of civil services, eradication of entire communities.
That example of man’s inhumanity to man is horrific enough reason to have all decent peoples sympathize with the victims and call for a halt to the carnage and destruction. That call is being heard and echoed throughout American society now with the additional call for impeachment of the POTUS and those who engineered the direct and indirect support of the attacks by Netanyahu and the Armed Forces of The United States of America, a nation born to overthrow its oppressors in 1776.
Those attacks provide eye-candy for many and may even lead some to forget the sordid Epstein scandal and the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol that is tied to the corrupt actions of the POTUS and the complicit oligarchs.
The Netanyahu/POTUS adventure has cost the US $25 to $30billion USD, continues at a $2billion/day clip, has drained the US stockpile of critical weapons, and degraded US defense armament commitments to worldwide allies, especially those threatened by North Korea, China and Russia. In addition, Gulf State Allies are rethinking the wisdom of their connection to the US.
POTUS launched an operation that is prohibited by the US Constitution. There is no requirement for US military forces to obey illegal orders that further the mounting suffering of others.
American military veterans and active-duty military families are questioning the morality of the US role in this conflagration. Last week former US military professionals and members of US military families protested at the Canon Congressional Office Building in Washington D.C. Some 70 of the protestors had their hands zip-tied and were arrested.
Can we afford to see the moral fiber of the country, the Congress, the US Government, law enforcement agencies and the military, eroded by the corrupt actions of the POTUS and his enablers?
The extrajudicial violence is beginning to take a toll on the conscience of the decent American law enforcement and military professionals on whose shoulders the safety of US society rests.
Societies are based on sets of commonly held values. The immoral actions of the POTUS and his cronies, who are making enormous profits from POTUS’ military adventures, are eroding the moral character of decent public servants. What does the Epstein scandal teach us?
One of the groups protesting at the Canon Building was the Center on Conscience & War, which assists the increasing number of military personnel seeking conscientious objector status.
We owe our military personnel more than training and retirement benefits. We owe them moral support as they struggle to serve a corrupt POTUS regime that has now moved to suppress the Armed Forces news agency, Stars & Stripes, for having the audacity to question POTUS propaganda.
Must the most powerful nation on Earth continue to take orders from Netanyahu and the AIPAC?
I support the Center on Conscience & War and urge you to support it. The link to their website is further below.
Be compassionate, no more war.
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I wasn't aware of this organization, definitely worth supporting as our military personnel need to be able to say no to the immoral and unacceptable violence the present government (I use that term loosely) is creating.
Manuel, thank you for this writing and for the resources available for those who want to take action to oppose these wars.
Donna