Robert C. Koehler: Is abolishing war a possibility?
by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency
Jun 06, 2024
4 minutes
If we can end, let us say . . . slavery – the legal “ownership” of other human beings – can’t we also end other great social wrongs? Can’t we also end war?
As I ask this question, I am suddenly bludgeoned by an unexpected irony, since the United States ended slavery through a brutal war, with a death toll of perhaps three quarters of a million people.
But it was worth it, right?
Well, that’s what history tells us. It has essentially “made peace” with the war and now celebrates the moral objectives of the winning side, with all its carnage forever reduced to a statistical abstraction.
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