Well said. It has been well documented throughout history, that peace is not created by war, it is created by the protection of individual rights, most often usurped by the very governments who purport to be doing the protecting. Only those wars that increase or protect individual rights are just and all those that fight for any other purpose are doing an injustice to our world, despite their patriotic illusion. Choosing when to fight, when left to politicians has always placed their societies into conflict and harm way as monetary interests, the Military Industrial Complex unconscionably gain access to the treasury to fund the war.

A President or other leader, as Commander and Chief, should never be allowed to make such a decision, nor Congress, but only by majority vote, as it is children of the majority and not those of Congress or the President that are most often “ordered” to risk their lives for the illusion of freedom. Going to war by Presidential Order is pure dictatorial policy, one that America has embraced throughout the 20th century, and one that the majority has been placed into economic slavery to support.