Inside the new graphic novel about Dorothy Day. Also: Ugandan CW detained following land-grab intervention; Reznicek seeks aid for 'prison family,' and the history of Christian anarchism.
It’s easy to be a pacifist if you live thousands of miles away from a war zone where there are troops, tanks and aircraft from a neighboring country trying to take over your homeland. The people there may very well live in refugee camps far away from the bombed out shell of what used to be your home. A bloody dictator who leads that military force is unlikely to be swayed by rosaries and demonstrations (I’m thinking of the Ukraine). We in the US are unlikely to be militarily attacked by a foreign country- the last time was by the British in the war of 1812. I don’t think the Ukrainians had much choice but to take up arms to push back the invader. War is still messy business that causes a lot of death and destruction but sometimes it is unavoidable and the only choice available.
It’s easy to be a pacifist if you live thousands of miles away from a war zone where there are troops, tanks and aircraft from a neighboring country trying to take over your homeland. The people there may very well live in refugee camps far away from the bombed out shell of what used to be your home. A bloody dictator who leads that military force is unlikely to be swayed by rosaries and demonstrations (I’m thinking of the Ukraine). We in the US are unlikely to be militarily attacked by a foreign country- the last time was by the British in the war of 1812. I don’t think the Ukrainians had much choice but to take up arms to push back the invader. War is still messy business that causes a lot of death and destruction but sometimes it is unavoidable and the only choice available.
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