Tag: anti-war movement

Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Member Post

GrannyDude
By GrannyDude
GrannyDude Member
|
151 COMMENTS
 

 …says the bumper sticker. Categorically. The owner of the bumper, the person driving the car, is already against the next one, too, no matter what it is about. So it’s not “war is not the answer in this specific time and place” but war is never the answer. But of course, it is. Preview Open

Join Ricochet!

This is a members-only post on Ricochet's Member Feed. Want to read it? Join Ricochet’s community of conservatives and be part of the conversation. Get your first month free.

Member Post

Ray Kujawa
By Ray Kujawa
Ray Kujawa Coolidge
Born and raised in beautiful South Jersey, work in the Aerospace industry. I play accordion now, but I was house trained on clarinet and saxophone and I can play both well. I can swing a squash racquet.
|
6 COMMENTS
 

We in the English speaking democracies are often faulted for our supposed ill motivations in going to war. At this Christmas Season, and at a time we continue to be under the attack of monstrous forces who would destroy everything that we hold dear, it is important to recall why we do at time have […]

Join Ricochet!

This is a members-only post on Ricochet's Member Feed. Want to read it? Join Ricochet’s community of conservatives and be part of the conversation. Get your first month free.

Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Is Obama a War Criminal?

Paul A. Rahe
By Paul A. Rahe
Paul A. Rahe Contributor
Paul A. Rahe is Professor of History at Hillsdale College, where he holds an endowed chair, and last year he was a National Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is author of Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution (1992) and of Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory under the English Republic (2008), Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty: War, Religion, Commerce, Climate, Terrain, Technology, Uneasiness of Mind, the … [more]
|
41 COMMENTS
 

Like many other auditors, Howie Carr of The Boston Herald was perplexed after he listened to Barack Obama’s televised address on Wednesday night. He cannot understand, any more than can you or I, how the President can deny that ISIS — the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria — is Islamic. He could have added that it was also rather odd that the President of the United States denied that ISIS is a state. “What,” we might ask, “does a state do that ISIS does not now do?” And Carr was no less nonplussed when Secretary of State John Kerry denied that we were going to war against ISIS, resorted to euphemism, and asserted that what we are about to become engaged in is “a very important counter-terrorism operation.”

“Does that,” Carr asks, “make it … a police action? Will we have to destroy the village in order to save it?”

Preview Open