Ang publiko sa US wala nangandoy sa gubat sa US sa Ukraine.
Seven percent want military options considered (poll by McClatchy-Marist, April 7-10), up from six percent a bit earlier (Pew, March 20-23), or 12 percent for U.S. ground troops and 17 percent for air strikes (CNN, March 7-9).
Polling is similar on U.S. desire for a war with Iran, or for U.S. military involvement in Syria. Many more Americans believe in ghosts and UFOs, according to the polls, than believe that these would be good wars.
Ang publiko sa US wala gayud nagpaluyo sa gubat sa Libya, ug sulod sa mga katuigan ang kadaghanan nag-ingon nga ang mga gubat sa Iraq ug Afghanistan dili unta ilunsad.
The search for a good war is beginning to look as futile as the search for the mythical city of El Dorado. And yet that search remains our top public project.
Gitulon sa militar sa US ang 55.2 porsyento sa federal discretionary nga paggasto, sumala sa National Priorities Project. Ang gipasalida sa telebisyon nga mga kalihokan sa dula sa US nagpasalamat sa mga miyembro sa militar sa pagtan-aw gikan sa 175 ka mga nasud. Ang mga tigdala sa ayroplano sa US nagpatrolya sa kadagatan sa kalibotan. Ang mga drone sa US naghaguros sa kalangitan sa mga nasud liboan ka milya gikan sa atong mga baybayon.
No other nation spends remotely comparable funds on militarism, and much of what the United States buys has no defensive purpose — unless “defense” is understood as deterrence or preemption or, indeed, aggression. As the world’s number one supplier of weapons to other nations, ours may be said to extend its search for a good war beyond its own affairs as well.
A 2006 National Intelligence Estimate found that U.S. wars were generating anti-U.S. sentiment. Former military officials, including Stanley McChrystal, say drone strikes are producing more enemies than they are killing. A WIN/Gallup poll of 65 nations at the end of 2013 found the U.S. far ahead of any other as the nation people believed was the greatest threat to peace in the world.
It is the ethics of a coward to believe that safety justifies all, but of a fool to commit immoral acts that actually endanger oneself. And what is more immoral than modern wars, with deaths and injuries so massive, so one-sided, and so heavily civilian?
Military spending produces fewer jobs than spending on education or infrastructure, or even on tax cuts for working people, according to studies by the Political Economy Research Institute. It is the ethics of a sociopath to justify killing for economic gain, but of a fool to do so for economic loss.
Ang militar mao ang among nag-una nga konsumidor sa petrolyo ug tiglalang sa mga superfund nga mga site, dugang pa nga ang lungag diin among giunlod ang mga pondo nga makatubag sa tinuud nga peligro sa pagbag-o sa klima.
Gipakamatarong sa gubat ang sekreto ug ang pag-us-os sa mga kagawasan: walay warrant nga pagpaniid, walay balaod nga pagkabilanggo, tortyur, ug pagpatay, bisan pa nga ang mga gubat gibaligya ingong pagdepensa sa “kagawasan.”
Ug siyempre ang pagmentinar sa nukleyar ug uban pang mga hinagiban alang sa gubat nagpameligro sa tinuyo o aksidente nga katalagman.
The downsides to war, even for an aggressor nation with overwhelming fire power, are voluminous. The upside would seem to be that if we keep fighting wars, one of them might turn out to be a good one.
But ask people to name a good war, and most will go back 73 years to World War II. A few will express badly misinformed views about Yugoslavia or Rwanda, but most will focus right in on Adolf Hitler. Think about that. Our top public project for the past three-quarters of a century has to go back that far to find a popular example of its use.
We live in a vastly changed world, and public opinion reflects that. The power of nonviolent action to resist tyranny and injustice is dramatically more realized, as is understanding of nonviolent conflict resolution and wise conflict avoidance.
Winston Churchill called World War II “the Unnecessary War” claiming that “there was never a war more easy to stop.” That war would not have happened without World War I, which nobody claims was itself unavoidable.
Just as the U.S. sells weapons to abusive nations today and prioritizes militarism over aid to refugees, Western nations helped fund the rise of the Nazis and refused to accept Jewish refugees. There are ways to prevent situations from ever reaching the point of war.
O mas maayo nga adunay kung dili kita mamuhunan sa industriya sa militar nga adunay "total nga impluwensya" nga gipasidan-an ni Presidente Dwight Eisenhower.
David Swanson’s books include War No More: The Case for Abolition and projects include WorldBeyondWar.org. David Swanson wants you to declare peace at http://WorldBeyondWar.org Ang iyang bag-ong libro Wala na ang Gubat: Ang Kaso sa Pag-abolish. Siya blogs sahttp://davidswanson.org ug http://warisacrime.org ug nagtrabaho alang sa http://rootsaction.org. Siya nag-abaga Talk Nation Radio. Sunda siya sa Twitter: @davidcnswanson ugHimoa.