I saw one of the stupidest bumper stickers ever a couple of days ago: ”I’m already against the next war.”

It’s one thing to oppose the Iraq war.  Certainly the Iraq war is less meritorious than many previous ones.  It’s another to favor peace.  I think all of us would prefer to live at peace^*.  But to reflexively oppose war without exception is beyond stupid.  It’s suicidal.  Some wars are fought out of necessity for preservation of one’s self and one’s allies.  To oppose such wars is to favor your own demise.

^*Peace, by the way, is not merely the absence of open, armed conflict.  The Israelis who live in constant fear of a rocket crashing through their roof are not at peace.  Peace is the absence of the threat of conflict.

• Six one way, half dozen the other
• Give me a freaking break
• Those who would trade essential liberty
• Who could have predicted Iraq would be a quagmire?
• Today is Patriot’s Day

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