In our Country...one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out. - William Tecumseh Sherman

I had a talk at Christmas which made me realize that as far as The Modern Left goes, I had never really explained my beliefs on war. So I will do it now.

I am, and always have been, emphatically anti-war. For quite a while I was a member of the War Resisters League and frankly, probably stopped paying membership dues simply because there was no war at the time.

And no inkling of an oncoming one.

I guess hindsight is 20/20.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. - George McGovern

I will say upfront that I am a Christian. I know. All those on the left are supposed to be Atheists who have no respect for religion or society.

Actually, I know a few Atheists who I respect very much...and that stereotype doesn't reflect their beliefs at all.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

As a Christian, I believe in God. If there is a God, then we are all His children. Ergo, we are all brothers and sisters. Is it right to throw a rock at your brother's head? No.

Isn't it exponentially worse to shot your brother in the head?

Is not Life miserable enough, comes not Death soon enough, without resort to the hideous enginery of War? - Horace Greeley

Wars aren't something with a beginning and an end.

If not for the decimation of Germany after WWI there wouldn't have been the seeds for Hitler to take power which led to WWII. After WWII, France was weakened enough that Vietnam (previously a colony of France) was able to declare independence from France and then-current Japanese occupation.

I think we all know how that went.

Never has there been a good war or a bad peace. - Benjamin Franklin

I believe that wars are started for, and really only benefit, big business.

If Wall Street really feels that people need to die to boost their bottom line, than they should be lining up to take the plunge. Rather than sending other people's sons and daughters to do the deed in their stead.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. - Agatha Christie

If there is a moral argument for war, I have yet to hear it.

I cannot fathom a world where someone can make a morally persuasive argument that it is O.K. to kill another human being...let alone to do so because a much richer person than you told you it was the right thing to do.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Mohandas K. Gandhi

There is nothing noble about war. Nothing good or moral.

I am too old do be eligible for the draft were the government to reinstitute it, and I find it absolutely disturbing that there isn't a larger anti-war movement by those who would be affected were the draft to be brought back.

This war isn't right. Period.

But then again, war isn't right. Period.

If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn to do it? - Joan Baez