Putting War Into Perspective

Thanks to Catherine Whelan Costen who IMHO shows that supporting our actions in the middle east doesn't make us war mongers.

We Can’t Fight for Peace
Op-Ed by Catherine Whelan Costen
January 25,2007

Sometimes you have to fight for freedom. Sometimes you have to fight to defend and protect. Sometimes, in the very worst of times, you have to kill to survive. But you can’t fight for Peace. You can’t make a clean cut with a dirty knife. You don’t dirty to make something clean. You clean to make something clean. If you want peace you have to be peace. Our freedom gives us the ability to chose to live in peace. When we lose our freedom we lose our peace. When we give up peace in a free society then we have abdicated our responsibility as free people. When we chose war, violence, invasion and occupation of another’s land and support those who do; we are not seeking peace.


Canadians have been known the world over for our soldiers diplomacy, our tact and our discipline. We have the very best trained soldiers in the world. They represent the people of Canada and our dreams for peace in the world. Canadians can determine the direction of their military in a sovereign free nation. They cannot make such determinations in a country which is not sovereign. Our sovereignty is on the line. Peace is on the line. Freedom is on the line.

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