Monday, November 27, 2006

Bombing for peace is like what?

Pet peeve: People who blindly accuse peace advocates of not supporting the troops.

Lately it seems like people who promote world peace are getting blasted by supporters of the Iraq war (see Anti Peace Sign). Don't these people, including those with family and friends in Iraq, want the troops to come home safely? Is the goal of this nation to continuously wage war? Wanting an end to the war is in NO WAY correllated to a lack of support for the military stationed there. They have been given a job, and it's being done to the best of their ability (with whatever resources they're being given from ranks above). How does wanting that job to be determined completed so that people can safely come home to their families now constitute treason? And, irrespective of the Iraq war, what's wrong with dreaming that peace could happen, or just wanting to be a peaceful person?

People are ridiculous, as ever.