Is it good someone stopped the Nazis from genocide? Yes.
There we go. End of discussion.
I’m not here to debate the idea that wars are bad, or that they happen for complex, often highly immoral reasons. I never staked out any of those positions. In fact I literally said previously “There is no such thing as a perfectly moral war.”
But none of that changes the fact that, like it or not, militaries are necessary. They’re necessary because wars get started for immoral reasons. Because we can’t wish ourselves into a world where autocrats and fascists and nationalists and revanchists don’t exist. We can work to build that world, and we should. But it will take time, and we do not get the luxury of living without any means of stopping those people in the meantime.
You can’t be a progressive nation if you’re not a nation at all.
There we go. End of discussion.
I’m not here to debate the idea that wars are bad, or that they happen for complex, often highly immoral reasons. I never staked out any of those positions. In fact I literally said previously “There is no such thing as a perfectly moral war.”
But none of that changes the fact that, like it or not, militaries are necessary. They’re necessary because wars get started for immoral reasons. Because we can’t wish ourselves into a world where autocrats and fascists and nationalists and revanchists don’t exist. We can work to build that world, and we should. But it will take time, and we do not get the luxury of living without any means of stopping those people in the meantime.
You can’t be a progressive nation if you’re not a nation at all.