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In reply to the discussion: When people call the majority opposed to Syrian intervention.... [View all]Cleita
(75,480 posts)My first memories were of war, of the knowledge that people were losing sons, of rations because of the war effort, of war orphans whose parents were killed and knowing that most of the adults' conversations were about the war. I was fortunate enough not to live in a war zone, but I heard the stories from European immigrants after the war, who were in the war zones, of the horrors they witnessed and the abuses and starvation that many of them had endured. To say I'm 'war weary' is not an exaggeration. However, my disdain for war, except as a last resort for DEFENSE, is not because of that. It's because of the destruction, not only of human lives, but other species' lives and the destruction of habitat and the environment and the fact that the end result is really to make a few fat cats rich. We have no business even doing a so-called small surgical strike in a country who has not attacked us. There are many other ways to intervene and none of them require weapons, just leadership and diplomacy.