vietnamization
we’ve been talking about vietnam a lot in my international politics course and its been making me think a lot about how and why i’m a pacifist. joe, brandon, etc. bring up the argument that without war the holocaust probably would have kept going or at least succeeded in killing everyone but the aryans. but i think there is a difference between war and intervention. like it obviously is not okay for hitler to declare war on non-aryan people by way of killing them off in these systematic execution “camps.” also, declaring war on neighboring nations isn’t justified. however, the United Kingdom going to war with Germany and other nations doing the same is probably justified. similar situations on both counts are probably the same. situations like iraq and vietnam get really messy then. because i’m not sure that its necessarily possible that one nation has the ability to decide it should be the nation that intervenes, and usually i think the decision to intervene is “the right thing for the wrong reasons.” this is my current theory on war and intervention.