When is force necessary?

Saturday March 29, 2003 at 9:08 am

Someone in the military wrote an email about all of the peace protests. Being quite upset about all of the senseless protesting and lack of alternatives being offered by the peaceniks, the intent of the email was to help these people understand that sometimes war is necessary.

While this is not exactly how I view the possibility of war, it is a lesson I think peaceniks everywhere should learn — that force, although unpleasant, is sometimes the only response available when all other reasonable options have been exhausted. A last resort, if you will.

If you happen upon a peace rally…

1) Approach ignorant, liberal person talking about peace and saying there should be "no retaliation."

2) Have a brief conversation with him and ask if military force is appropriate?

3) When he says, "No," ask him, "Why not?"

4) When he says, "Because that would just cause more innocent deaths, which would be awful, and we should not cause more violence."

5) Punch him in the face… hard.

6) When he gets up to punch you, point out to him that it would be a mistake (and contrary to his values) to punch you because he would be causing more violence.

7) When he agrees with you that he has pledged not to commit violence, punch him in the face again… only harder this time.

Repeat steps 2 through 7 until he understands that sometimes it is necessary to punch back.

jason

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