Yes, Wars Are For Real but for how long?
I was recently forwarded an article entitled “This War is for Real” and was proclaimed to be from a MG (Major General) Vernon Chong, USAF retired, However after checking the article title with Snopes, I found out this article did not originate with Dr Chong, however was it written by someone else. Dr Chong only forwarded the article via email to another person and somehow his name was wrongly attributed as the creator of the article as it was passed along the Internet.
“This War is for Real” article talks about the justifications of the United States of America’s involvement in the war in Iraq. A copy of the actual article is located at: http://www.snopes.com/
The email I received with this 2005 article is seemingly a rebuttal to my recent article, “World Peace Thru World Law”. However since the comment included in the email to me contained only this statement “you should read this article if you are going to talk about the USA’s war in Iraq”, I am not going to address the general arguments given in this 2005 “This War is for Real” article that supports the USA involvement in the war in Iraq.
Instead I am going to make my own statements about the USA, Great Britain, and the other nations involvement in the war in Iraq. And that is, while I agree that terrorism is a form of war (and wars are for ”keeps”) and both are acts that should be stopped, I cannot agree that using a vigilante posse (composed of the armies of the nations: USA, Great Britain, and the others) is the best way to end wars and stop terrorism! Yes, I know that this vigilante posse first appealed to the “Marshalls of the World”, i.e. the United Nations, to act against the growing number of terrorist events happening in the world, but I also know that the United Nations does not have the ability to act accordingly. And that is because the United Nations has a fundamental flaw and that is the veto power given to any of the major standing members of the UN Security Council. So rather than fix this flaw, the vigilante posse, headed by George W. Bush, decided to take the matters into their own hands. And since there are no actual worldwide laws against war and terrorism, it cannot be said that the acts of the vigilante posse are in any way legal, therefore the vigilante posse actions are of outlaws!
It is towards the humanistic goal of ending wars and stopping terrorism that I have proposed the creation of a United Free Nations Organization (UFNO.org). And for a nation (or representatives of the major religions of the world) to be allowed into the UFNO, they would have to first subscribe to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)! The UFNO would then make the UDHR into worldwide laws (including laws against war and terrorism and as amendable from time to time by the UFNO Congress) which would then apply to all people of the Earth. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/
It is important to note three things about this UFNO proposal: 1) That the member nations of the UFNO would still be allowed to maintain their own national police forces: for the purpose of self defense and to enforce the laws within that nation only. And 2) The nations or groups of people or world religions who will not subscribe to the UDHR (as it becomes world law) will be considered outlaws. 3) Should the United Nations be able to change its charter to eliminate the veto power within its security council and to remove those nations who will not subscribe to the United Nations UDHR, than the creation of UFNO will not be necessary.
Finally, since it will only be via international political action that the UFNO can be created, a new worldwide political party, The World Peace Political Party (W3P) has been created! You are welcome to visit http://www.W3P.info web site where you will find discussion groups, the ability to have polls taken, and decisions made. Your participation is most welcomed!
