<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><span>Courtesy of Addicting Info at:</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/26/the-25-best-reasons-to-stop-sending-our-soldiers-to-war/">http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/26/the-25-best-reasons-to-stop-sending-our-soldiers-to-war/</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>-----------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><h1 style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 36px; line-height: 38px; ">The 25 Best Reasons To Stop Sending Our Soldiers To War</h1></span><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:7CD82C69-FE10-4018-B5EE-F7F4D0415745" id="7CD82C69-FE10-4018-B5EE-F7F4D0415745" width="438" height="409" apple-original-width="438" apple-original-height="409"></div><div><span></span> <br><span>As we pause to honor those in the military who have served the nation, let’s pay them the highest honor by reflecting on why we should stop sending them to war:</span><br><span></span><br><span>1. “Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.” ~~Arthur Hoppe, columnist</span><br><span></span><br><span>2. “After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.” ~~Brooks Atkinson, theatre critic</span><br><span></span><br><span>3. “War does not determine who is right, only who is left.” ~~Bertrand Russell, British philosopher</span><br><span></span><br><span>4. “We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.” ~~Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States</span><br><span></span><br><span>5. “No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.” ~~Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States</span><br><span></span><br><span>6. “War settles nothing.” ~~Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States and 1st Supreme Allied Commander, Europe</span><br><span></span><br><span>7. “War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.” ~~Chris Hedges, American journalist and war correspondent</span><br><span></span><br><span>8. “After victory, you have more enemies.” ~~Cicero, Roman philosopher and statesman</span><br><span></span><br><span>9. “The best defense is no offense.” ~~Dr. Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute</span><br><span></span><br><span>10. “Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. “ ~~Abraham Flexner, American educator</span><br><span></span><br><span>11. “I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.” ~~Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States</span><br><span></span><br><span>12. “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” ~~Albert Einstein, father of modern physics</span><br><span></span><br><span>13. “A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.” ~~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writer and Nobel Prize winner</span><br><span></span><br><span>14. “Violence as a way of gaining power…is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security…” ~~Alfred Adler, physician and psychotherapist</span><br><span></span><br><span>15. “Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.” ~~Anne O’Hare McCormick, foreign news correspondent</span><br><span></span><br><span>16. “All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.” ~~Alexis de Tocqueville, French political scientist, historian, and politician</span><br><span></span><br><span>17. “Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.” ~~A. Philip Randolph, leader in the civil rights and labor movements</span><br><span></span><br><span>18. “War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.” ~~Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and four-star general</span><br><span></span><br><span>19. “The dangerous patriot…drifts into chauvinism and exhibits blind enthusiasm for military actions.” ~~Colonel James A. Donovan, U.S. Marine Corps</span><br><span></span><br><span>20. “The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.” ~~Chris Hedges, American journalist and war correspondent</span><br><span></span><br><span>21. “We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives…inside ourselves.” ~~Albert Camus, French author, journalist, and philosopher</span><br><span></span><br><span>22. “No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.” ~~Alexis de Tocqueville, French political scientist, historian, and politician</span><br><span></span><br><span>23. “We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.” ~~Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States and 1st Supreme Allied Commander, Europe</span><br><span></span><br><span>24. “Wisdom is better than weapons of war.” ~~Ecclesiastes 9:18</span><br><span></span><br><span>25. “I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.” ~~Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States and 1st Supreme Allied Commander, Europe</span><br><span></span><br><span>-----------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Have a nice Memorial Day, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><br></div><div><span></span>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> <br><span>Tom Hansen</span><br><span>Moscow, Idaho</span><br><span></span><br><span>"If not us, who?</span><br><span>If not now, when?"</span><br><span></span><br><span>- Unknown</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br></div><div></div></body></html>