John H wrote:


Does attempting to provide good news to go along with the bad make one
a war
monger

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No, but discounting all aspects of the tragedy of war and concentrating
only on the rare humanitarian moments or the rebuilding of bombed out
infrastructure does.

Rooting, tooting, blood-lusting, and abandoning critical thought in
favor of flag waving patriotic zeal on the eve of war makes one a war
monger.

Discounting or rejecting other solutions and ignoring all evidence
contrary to the trumped up justification for invading another country
makes one a war monger.

Despairing that we have not killed a sufficient number of foreign
persons and calling for the wide spread use of nuclear weapons in a
region (as some in this forum have done) makes one a war monger.

Accepting ridiculous claims as the basis for the invasion of another
country, and then allowing, accepting, endorsing, and applauding the
tactic of shifting the justification between a series of additional
reasons as the former claims are proven untrue makes one a war monger.

When we were kids we were told that Russia was a threat to the US. They
were likely to invade us and try to set up their preferred form of
government here. Now that the US is doing *exactly* that elsewhere in
the world, it is no longer an unthinkable, shameful, immoral action-
it's a heroic
quest? Believing that makes one a war monger.

So if you see yourself described in one or more paragraphs above, shame
on you for war mongering.