Walter Rhett: Conflict Violence: The President's Stand On Syria And His Nobel Speech

[DemocratsForProgress]

Because I stand firmly against conflict violence, I support the President’s plan for missile strikes against Syria.

Even before the hands fly to ask why, the fingers pointing tick off the bewildering absurdity of opposing violence by supporting military intervention!

Next, they point to the absolute foolishness of supporting any war or war event for any reason. They wag and say we have no business there. They point to a long short list of all the bad things that can happen as outcomes—escalation of the conflict, within and outside of borders, breaches of international relations, harmful economic exchanges, increased threats across the world, the blood-smeared bodies pointing to America not as a moral protector but as a bully, acting on its own whim, ignoring—and inflaming—the world’s outrage.

Before that contorted outrage is a mask of stoic indifference. A moral blindness hides behinds that outrage, a moral position that can only be challenged and met by military actions...

More at: http://www.democratsforprogress.com/2013/09/04/conflict-violence-obama-syria-and-the-nobel-speech/

[msanthrope]

1. 1 to 5 to leave on the alert....someone doesn't like your point of view---

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low post count, oh-so-lefty handle, glib whitewashing of "war for peace"
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[DemocratsForProgress]

2. Thanks.

Alerter is apparently not bright enough to realize this is a short excerpt from a long piece by one of our writers, and that Democrats for Progress is the site name. Nor bright enough to realize that Mr. Rhett finding common ground with the administration on this issue is his own opinion, freely expressed, and has nothing to do with propaganda or whitewashing. Mr. Rhett has no qualms about people holding views contrary to his; what a pity that the alerter doesn't hold him- or herself to the same standard.

[freshwest]

3. Found the entire article scanning DFP and appreciate it being posted here. Well thought out, thanks.