In short...

I thought I might help my readers by creating a post which more succinctly states my exploration of pacifism to date (for those with less than 10 hours of free time to kill).

I have not been a pacifist and am not a pacifist at current. I am an American boy who has written off pacifism as an impossible stance (influenced by CS Lewis' "Why I am not a pacifist"). I am also a Christian who admires and would like to further embrace the victory that God achieved on the Cross of Christ.

Recently the specter of nuclear holocaust has brought a surprising question to my mind. Is aggression less feasible than pacifism? After all, how does a world of aggressive nations work after they have nuked each other into annihilation? Is aggression really any more feasible than pacifism? Aggression seems to have no survivability advantage given the current state of nuclear proliferation. Consequently, I have opened my mind a bit to the possibility of pacifism as a way to live and govern. This blog is a journal of my rambling thoughts on pacifism.

To date this is what I have basically written:

1) NATO aggression in Kosovo caused harm (not the intended good) to the people of Kosovo.
2) National aggression does not do the work of restorative justice because aggression ads further wronging to a situation.


Here is what I plan to write:

1) Tainted Justice: how morally imperfect people step into moral sewers.
2) Sudan and Khartoum: the question of war as necessary evil.
3) Joseph Kony and Uganda: the question of just reconciliation.
4) Japan-American communications and Pearl Harbor: the question of diplomacy as power.