What would Martin Luther King Jr. Say...

Well I was against the Iraq War from the beginning. Later I discovered evidence as to why the U.S might consider Iraq and Iran dire threats. We go there to fight at a greater cost to America, money,civil liberties. martin Luther King said it a long time ago and the words seems to resonate with me.

King was against the Vietnam War, simply becuae it came at a time when he was trying to secure rights, and help African-American become self-sufficent. About the Vietnam war he said this..


"King offered the most severe moral indictment of imperialism of his generation. He boldly condemned America's Vietnam War as an unjustified,cynical and hopeless slaugher of poor people of color.

He critiqued the origins and effects of the war, in which a million Vietnamese had already died, but he went further,saying, "The war in vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit."
He spoke of corporate investments abroad and American support for military dictorships, and greed.
"We must radiply begin the shift from a 'thing-oriented' society to a 'person-oriented' society. When machines and computers, profits motives and property rights are consider more important than people, the giant triplets of rascism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."

"King attacked the war as damaging to the Vietnamese but also to Americans, and particulary African-Americans. The nations's conduct abroad taught people at home to accept violence while it consumed society's resources like a "demonic suction tube."

President Johnson's War on poverty, he said ,had been shot down on the battlefields of Vietnam," while the "flamethrowers in Vietnam fan the flames in our cities." King did not just say the war was wrong; he indicted the system that brought it about. He called for "a true revolution of values," a reordering of priorities to "develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole," to join the world revolution on behalf of the poor, the colonized, and the oppressed.

Everyone must protest the war, he said, for "silence is betrayal." He feared "there is such a thing as being too late....If we do not act we shall surely be dragged down the long,dark shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strenght without sight." Not to mention being broke..( words mine)

Amen..


From "Going Down Jericho Road" by Michael K.Honey.Published by W.W. Norton& Company. New York. 2007 Pg 94.