WAR is an immoral response to failed communications and growing mistrust, especially when one or more sides purposely stop listening to the other. Prolonging WAR is immoral, especially as sides change goals and objectives. WAR is immoral as its primary product is violence, mayhem, death and destruction. WAR is immoral because it is self-perpetuating and blind to alternatives like a truce.
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Ahead of the visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to USA, "over 1,000 faith leaders in the United States called for a Christmas truce in Ukraine."
- "And we don't want the moral center questioning this war to be coming from people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Donald Trump or Tucker Carlson, who are the people now questioning this war. We want it to come from the moral center of this country. That means the faith-based community, who understands that we have to protect all of God's creations and that our moral obligation is to stop the killing, stop the fighting, stop the war. And that's why we have called for this Christmas truce."
- "We believe that there's an alternative way. And that alternative way comes out of discussion, because, really, when you talk about discussion or a truce, you're talking about a battle for the soul, whether the soul can actually commune with another soul and produce a more just world, a world that's not built upon conflict and pain and aggression."
Immoral WARs require immoral amounts of sickeningly easy money and an acceptance of purposely-obscured violence, mayhem, death and destruction, while intentionally ignoring local growing misery, inequality and anti-war protests. A truce would give us pause to consider better use of public funds.
- "... over $100 [US] billion, without a year going by, that could have been used for so many essential needs here in this country, and instead poured into a war that is not winnable on the battlefield. So, we need to be honest about this. And that's why we have this call for a Christmas truce. That's why Reverend Barber will be giving a Christmas Eve sermon on the moral imperative of a truce. That's why we're having a week of protests, starting January 13th; February 19th, the Libertarian Party and the People's Party calling for a protest in Washington, D.C.; March 8th, International Women's Day, an international call of women to say, 'Stop this war, and end all wars.' That's what we need to do."
Immoral WAR is only about taking sides. Are you for the eastern/western WAR mongers/profiteers or the western/eastern WAR defenders/profiteers? In the meantime, those for PEACE, or a truce. are cast as appeasers by all who chose WAR.
- "Well, there's this ideological wall that seems to have developed. And that ideological wall is those who continue to cheer on Zelensky and Ukraine, and, on the other hand, you have the Republicans, particularly the right-wing, ultra-right-wing Republicans, that are basically operating as agents for Putin. So, people have chosen sides, unfortunately. And the sides that they have chosen are not the... is not the side of peace, but it's the side of continued warfare, continued aggression."
WAR's immorality is revealed, but maybe not recognized, when power brokers pick which aggressive dominators to oppose and which to ignore/support.
- "Most of our political elites and in Congress suffer from a moral and spiritual bankruptcy, because they can't say a mumbling word when it comes to what's really happening on the ground with the heroic struggles in Iran right now. They can't say a mumbling word about the Palestinian struggles, what's been going on for the last 50 years. But all of a sudden they're willing to breakdance and act as if they're concerned about domination when it comes to Ukraine."
A truce would allow us all to consider the many immoral aspects of WAR. How many more Ukrainians will die or suffer severe trauma? How many more bombs will destroy civilian homes or public services? How many more mass graves will be dug?
- "Well, one, it allows us to view the world through the lens of peace rather than war. It allows us to assume that there can be not just major interruptions in the process of war, but maybe those interruptions can become more chronic. And as they become more chronic, we have peaceful ways of dealing with the various forms of death and dogma and domination that are shot through the history of the species."
- "So, that's what truces do. They provide not just moments, but different lens through which we view the world...."
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I'm not for either side of WAR as both sides are dismissing PEACE for the sake of domination and profit.
Ukrainians are dying, immigrating, and losing it all and the rest of the world is suffering while OIL producers and WMD manufacturers profit. A truce would allow us to ask if these humanitarian losses are justified by creating more billionaires?
