http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/sherwood-ross/34326/nations-should-consider-responding-non-violently-to-future-u-s-aggressionPeople the world over must find non-violent ways to oppose American military force lest they suffer the fate of the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. In response to the menace of the U.S. military-industrial complex, non-violent soul force needs to be considered in international conflicts just as it was used by Mahatma Gandhi in India and by the Reverend Martin Luther King in the U.S.
The Vietnamese lost four million civilians and the Iraqis to date have lost perhaps one million or more civilians as a result of U.S. aggression. Such losses -- mainly of unarmed women and children -- are unacceptable, as is the horrific physical destruction inflicted on those nations. Viet Nam has yet to recover from Pentagon bombing and the spread of Agent Orange. And Iraq may be centuries recovering from the ravages of U.S. radioactive ammunition, euphemistically called "depleted uranium."
To this day, some Americans believe the U.S. "lost" the Viet Nam war when the U.S. in fact emerged physically undamaged with no civilian deaths while its military lost but a fraction of the combatants lost by the Vietnamese. Still, the losses suffered by American families were devastating and those by Vietnamese families more so. In the future, a non-violent response by other nations could spare them the fate of the Viet Namese and save the lives of U.S. soldiers as well.
Ominously, the Pentagon has spent over a trillion dollars in recent years on the refinement of deadlier killing instruments and the militarization of space from which it can control the planet with even greater authority than from its 800 foreign military bases.
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