The other day I came accross an 'anti-war' website that was unusually polished, complete with a Mission Statement that was unsually naive. It was something like, "End war and keep America safe!" And that a world coalition enforcing laws to ensure freedoms and blah, blah. It didn't actually mention how this coalition would enforce 'the law', but I'm sure there is much more here that wasn't thought out.
A cursory study of military history will obviously also become by de facto, a study of man. War involves disputes over sovereignty, territory, resources and the like, but the required element, the sine qua non, is politics. If War was an animal, without politics the beast would be dead. Aristotle said that, "man is by nature a political animal". So to guarantee the end of war would require the elimination of the human race. The earth would be a planet of fruits and vegetables. (You couldn't have animals, like monkeys, because they are territorial, create gangs or units and they organize raids as a basic ritual.) And although there has been great advances made in the development and cultivation of vegetables, they have never grasped, not even the clever Yellow Onion, the basic concepts of organizing a hostile campaign.
So, for the anti-war protester what options are there? To end war Man must end himself. If protesters are genuinely passionate in ending all war then they should put down the pickets and kill themselves. Suck the gas pipe.
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