Why is there not a strong anti-war movement for Iraq like there was for Vietnam?
The Vietnam War as at the height of the Cold War, were they at least had the nice-sounding justification of democracy, defending South Vietnam from the North, and all that jazz. In retrospect we look back and recognize it clearly as unjust, and we tend to forget that at the time there existed a solid argument and popular Cold War mentality which justified the war, but still people stood up and formed one of the strongest anti-war movements in history.
Why isn't that happening now? Even before the end of his presidency Bust admitted that Iraq had had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks and that they had no nuclear weapons. Nobody really knows why we're still there, and most people don't think we should be, and yet there seems to be no recognizable anti-war movement. The same goes for Afghanistan. That war is even more similar to Vietnam than Iraq, because the government has given us the justification of fighting terrorism, which seems to be the 21st century version of communism. The thing is, us invading these countries only strengthens the resentments and anger that engender terrorism. The Department of Homeland Security recently said that the potential for a terrorist attack today is the highest it's been since 2001; clearly this tactic isn't even working. So why aren't more people standing up to call for an end to it?
we talked about this in class a little today- my prof discussed the end of Romans 12 where Paul tells us to repay evil with good because repaying evil with evil never works. the gospel calls us to a higher standard.
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