I'm a conservative, I value things like Civilization, family
and tradition. Why should I be anti-war?
You should be anti war because War, corrodes those very things,
it corrodes, those very things in a variety of ways.
I mean, one way to think about it, in terms of U value, family
and and Traditional Values. Well what is think about, you
know, the go, let's go back to the sports displays, what's one
of the main sports displays? Would you touched upon a moment
ago? Reuniting family members.
So we'll have, you know it tugs at the heartstrings.
You have a father or a mother who hasn't seen their newborn
since they were a newborn or sometimes haven't seen them at
all or they haven't seen their young child.
Well, we celebrate that but there's an easy way to overcome
that which is don't send them to war in the first place.
So you can easily make the argument that even in the best
case, when the soldier comes home, they're not killed.
You still have taken them away. From their family during the
most formative years of children's lives.
Then of course if they're killed or damaged in some way which
presents prevents them from being a effective parent, you've
damaged families and of course, we shouldn't forget spouses
either who have to live without their spouse who's away and
oftentimes killed. So you can make the argument
these things a road families. Then of course, you also have
things like post-traumatic stress disorder and all the
other things, the kind of overlooked cost.
Of sending people to war the long and variable costs health
issues. All of these things eroded, the
ability of people to be effective members of their
communities effective members of society and their families.
And to the extent, those Traditional Values matter.
You should be concerned about that.
And then, of course, to the extent to the extent that other
values. It depends what values we
include. But if we have Traditional
Values, like you, no respect for individual rights.
Respect for human Liberty, for human Liberty, limited
government War, Is it odds with all these things?
That is what the historical record shows that war undermines
those most cherished values. And so, to the extent, you can
consider our concern with conserving, those values, the
military and, and Imperial instrument should be wielded
with great caution.