Ndị obodo US anaghị achọsi agha agha United States na 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.
Ndi United States enweghi agha n'agha agha na Libya, ma otutu afo ka otutu ndi kwuru na aghaghi agha agha na Iraq na Afghanistan.
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.
Ndị agha United States na-eloda pasent 55.2 nke mmefu ego gọọmentị, dịka National Priorities Project. Ihe omume egwuregwu televised US na-ekele ndị otu agha maka ilele mba 175. Ndị bu ụgbọelu US na-agagharị n'oké osimiri ụwa. US drones na-agbazi igwe igwe nke ọtụtụ puku kilomita site n'ụsọ mmiri anyị.
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.
Ndị agha bụ ndị na-azụ mmanụ ala na onye okike nke saịtị ndị dị elu, na mgbakwunye na ịbụ oghere n'ime ebe anyị na-ebelata ego nke nwere ike idozi ezigbo ihe ize ndụ nke mgbanwe ihu igwe.
Agha gosipụtara ihe nzuzo na nnwere onwe nke nnwere onwe: nyocha na-enweghị isi, mkpọrọ na-enweghị iwu, mmekpa ahụ, na igbu ọchụ, ọbụlagodi dịka agha na-ere ahịa dị ka ịgbachitere "nnwere onwe"
Ma n'eziokwu, mmezi nke ngwá agha nuklia na ngwá agha ndị ọzọ maka ihe ize ndụ nke agha na-achọ ma ọ bụ ọdachi dakwasịrị.
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.
Ma ọ bụ kama a ga-enwe ma ọ bụrụ na anyị na-agaghị otú nyekwara ke agha ulo oru mgbagwoju nke onye “ngụkọta mmetụta” President Dwight Eisenhower dọrọ aka ná ntị.
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 Akwụkwọ ọhụrụ ya bụ Agha Ọ Bụghị Ọdịnihu: Ikpe nke Mwepu. Ọ blọọgụ nahttp://davidswanson.org na http://warisacrime.org na ọrụ maka http://rootsaction.org. Ọ na-akwado Na-ekwu okwu na Radio Radio. Soro ya na Twitter: @davidcnswanson naFaceBook.