Those who rally for peace against war always mystify me. While I'm sure there must be some tiny minority out there who really does like war - I cannot imagine that this minority's numbers are significant. You would think that almost all of us would choose peace over war, all things being equal.
Sometimes, however, things are far from equal. Sometimes we face atrocities or potential horrors that can only be stopped one way: by war.
Who among us would prefer that this happened - rather than war to stop it? Give peace a chance. But if the chance doesn't pan out - then this should mean war.
When a group of high-ranking Nazi bureaucrats sat down 70 years ago today
(Jan. 20, 1942), they didn’t plot the death of 6 million Jews; they aimed at 11
million.
Dubbed the Wannsee Conference, after its location, it was chaired by SS
Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich, who brought together some of the most
efficient managers of mass murder history has ever seen.
The 90-minute agenda was direct, having been transmitted by Hitler to his
deputy, Reich Marshal Herman Goering, and then onto Heydrich: “Make all
necessary preparations” for a “total solution of the Jewish question” in all
territories under German influence, coordinate the role of all government
organizations in accomplishing that goal — and then submit a “comprehensive
draft” for the “final solution of the Jewish question.”
In other words, for the first time, the administrative, industrial and
transportation resources of an entire nation would be deployed for the purpose
of genocide.
Those who rally for peace manage to ignore a lot of wars. Their worst moment of hypocrisy in my lifetime was when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, and they refused to protest against that, but instead protested against our involvement over there, before we actually got over there. Sheesh.
Posted by: John Pepple | Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 08:49 PM