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Stopping War With Other Countries Essay

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...

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Without honesty, there can be no good. From a utilitarian perspective—which is the philosophy of J. S. Mill (“John Stuart Mill,” 2016), the good cannot be obtained unless it is good for the majority of people and is in effect a common good for all involved. What is the common good of annihilating whole peoples (many of them innocent), causing millions of refugees to flood Europe (where more nations are destabilized and social unrest piles upon social unrest)? We are destroying one way of life after another—and the finger must be pointed at ourselves, because we are the ones who sponsored the Taliban in the first place to fight a proxy war against the Soviets decades ago. We further exacerbated the situation by funding rebels and working with the House of Saud and the Israelis to undermine Assad’s regime and destroy the region.
We should immediately withdraw from the Middle East and cease intervening in countries that just want to be left alone. We should leave…

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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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