Dear President Trump,
The current war(s) that the U.S. is presently engaged in (sanctions should be included as economic warfare, which means we are at war with more countries than I can count on my two hands), are a severe drain on the moral energy and financial capital of this great country (Shambaugh, 2016). Why are we wasting so much? And for what?
The ethics of war and the current U.S. responses to terrorism are opposed to one another. I was happy to see that you ended the CIA program of funding rebels in the Middle East (aka terrorists). We need more of that. Yet, your administration now plans to send more troops to Afghanistan. We are still warmongering against Iran. ISIS is really on the ropes only because of Russian and Iranian intervention—and the neoconservatives in Congress still want Assad gone. This is not about terror. After all, our allies (and ourselves) are the biggest sponsors of terrorism! (Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the U.S.—an unholy trinity).
No matter what ethical theory we choose to examine this war, it is wrong. From the classical ethical theory of Aristotelianism, we see that it is against the one, the good, the true and the beautiful because...
References
John Stuart Mill. (2016). Retrieved from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mill/
Overby, P. (2017). Trump’s efforts to ‘drain the swamp’ lagging behind his campaign
rhetoric. NPR. Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/2017/04/26/525551816/trumps-efforts-to-drain-the-swamp-lagging-behind-his-campaign-rhetoric
Shambaugh, G. (2016). Economic warfare. Retrieved from
https://www.britannica.com/topic/economic-warfare
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