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Thursday, September 05, 2013

Peace for our time

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"Libya & Syria (Obama)
Iraq & Afghanistan (George W Bush)
Panama, Iraq, Somolia (sic) (George W Bush)
Beirut & Grenada (Reagan)
Vietnam (Nixon)
Bosnia & Kosovo (Clinton)

'War becomes perpetual when it is used as a rationale for peace' - Norman Solomon"


Unfortunately, the maker of this poster forgot other important examples:

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Korea (Truman)

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The South (Lincoln)

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Pearl Harbor (Roosevelt)

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Poland (Chamberlain)



I'm not sure why people think "roll over and surrender" is a recipe for peace.

"Peace for our time", though, maybe.

Or, perhaps, the true answer is that War is only Evil when a Western Power is the 'aggressor'.
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