Armistice Day

Our Nobel Peace Prize Commander in Chief is about to escalate the US troop level for the “Global War on Terrorism”, a big step-up in American war-making on November 11, the day known as Armistice Day.

November 11 was originally established by Congress back in 1919, a year after the day the guns of WWI finally went silent, in what was once referred to as the War to End All Wars. In declaring the national holiday Armistice Day, Congress said it was to be “a day dedicated to the cause of world peace”.

It’s hard to see how escalating a war is contributing to peace. Our Commander in Chief, who has declared the bloody assault on one of the world’s most remote and impoverished lands to be a “necessary war”, seems unwisely trying to emulate the mistakes of an earlier Democratic president, Lyndon B. Johnson, who turned Vietnam into the biggest disaster that the US has engaged in.

The signs are grimly clear, our Commander in Chief is steering the country into yet another military disaster — one that has sacrificed over 4,680 US lives, and slaughtered over 1,339,770 innocent lives in this so called Global War on Terrorism.

One of the greatest speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr. (the real Nobel Prize for Peace recipient), "A Time to Break Silence", delivered on April 4, 1967; it is a statement against war, it protested the command and deployment by Lyndon Johnson of almost unlimited violence against the people and the land of Vietnam.

"Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world."

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is time to start searching for a serious and brave candidate for the presidential nomination in 2012.

Armistice Day would be a good day to launch that search.