NaJohn LaForge
Izvo zvinowedzera zvakaoma kuyeuka Hondo Yenyika I, nekuda kwenguva uye neruzhinji kugamuchira, kana kusava nehanya, hupfumi hwehondo zvachose.
Pamusoro peGreat War munyori wenhau weBritish HG Wells akanyora muna Nyamavhuvhu 14, 1914, “Iyi yatove hondo hombe kwazvo munhoroondo. … Nekuti ino yave hondo yerunyararo. Inotarisa yakanangana nekuzvidzivirira. Inotarisira kugadzirisa kunomisa rudzi urwu rwechinhu zvachose. Wese musoja anorwa neGerman izvozvi murwi wehondo yekurwisa hondo. Iyi, yehondo huru pane dzose, haisi imwe hondo chete - ihondo yekupedzisira! ”
Optimists akati zvingave zvipfupi, "Kumba neKisimusi!" Panzvimbo iyoyo, ndiyo yakanyanyisa kudeuka kweropa kufambidzana neyakafungidzirwa 16 kusvika 37 miriyoni yakafa. Kurwa nezvimwe zviito zvehondo zvakauraya vanopfuura mamirioni manomwe varwi uye vanopfuura mamirioni 10 varwi vehondo, nepo chirwere, nzara, mapipi uye kuuraya vakaurayiwa vakauraya mamwe mamirioni. Panzvimbo pekuti "zvachose" kumisa hondo, iyo nguva isati yamboitika nguva yehondo ichiratidzira uye kukunda kweiye mutsivi wekutsiva kwakadzora nzira yekuuraya kweHondo Yenyika II 70 miriyoni, uye kutenderera kunopfuurira kuita mari zviri pamutemo kuuraya kuri kuenderera mberi kubva ipapo. Imwe fungidziro yakaderera ndeyekuti sezvo "kurwa kupedza hondo dzese," anenge 100 mamirioni vanhu vakafa munzvimbo dzehondo.
Zuva reArmistice rakagadzwa mu1919 yekuremekedza runyararo, uye uye nekurangarira uye nekurangarira WW Ini ndiri kutambura, kutya, kutya, kurwadziwa, uye kurasikirwa. Mu1918, misoro yakadzungudza: "Armistice Yasainwa, Kupera kweHondo!" Uye Armistice Day yakavambwa munharaunda yepasipasi ichitenderedza kutyisidzira nehondo dzinotyisa, kusava nebasa, kunyengera, kusava nebasa uye kunyanya kupesana neuori uye kutonhora kwevezvematongerwo enyika kwenguva refu kupokana. Hurumende yanhasi yeUSA gore rega rega inoshandisa mazana emabhirioni pane zvigadzirwa zvekugadzira zvombo izvo xenophobic fearmongering yaro neyakaitika hondo dzinotsigira. Chero bedzi vamubatanidzwa veUS vachiramba vachitengesa mafuta avo nemari muhomwe dzepfuti dzeUS, nyangwe hazvo, hudzvanyiriri hwakafanana neSaudi Arabia (yakadimburwa musoro mutongo wevasungwa we600 kubvira 2014) yakatarwa, yakadhonzwa, kutungamirwa uye kupihwa zvehondo muhondo yayo ine hunyanzvi yehunyanzvi hwezvipenga uye kusashanda zvakanaka kunorwisa Yemen.
MunaGunyana 2014, pakushanya kumakuva makuru euto reItaly, Pope akayambira nezve "chidimbu" Hondo Yenyika yechitatu inogona kunge yatotanga - nehondo zhinji dzinoenderera mberi, dzisingazivikanwe, mhosva dzevakuru, jetti inotsigirwa nehurumende uye kurwisa kwedrone, uye nyanzvi commando inopamba pasi rese. Rondedzero pfupi yeanhasi kurwa anosanganisira US kurwira muIraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Siria, Yemen, neSomalia; hondo dzevagari vemo muNigeria, Maghreb, Libya, neSouth Sudan; uye hondo yezvinodhaka yeMexico. Papa Francis akataura nezve izvi zvese, "Kunyange nanhasi, mushure mekukundikana kwechipiri kweimwe hondo yenyika, pamwe munhu anogona kutaura nezvehondo yechitatu, imwe yakarwa chidimbu, nemhosva, kuuraya, nekuparadza.
Mu1954, Zuva reArmistice rakatsiviwa neVeterans Day, saka mhemberero yedu yeruzhinji yerunyararo uye yekupera kwehondo yakava musangano weku “tsigira mauto,” nyika nemubatanidzwa zuva, uye chikuva chekutora mauto. Haasi munhu wese akafadzwa. Munyori werinonyorwa Kurt Vonnegut, murwi wehondo yenyika yechipiri uye POW, akazonyora kuti, “Zuva reArmistice rave Zuva raVeterans. Zuva reArmistice raive dzvene. Veterans 'Zuva harisi. Saka ndichakanda Zuva reVeterans pamusoro pefudzi rangu. Zuva reArmistice Ndichachengeta. Handidi kurasa chero zvinhu zvitsvene. ”
Vatsoropodzi vaviri veHondo Yenyika I vanouya mundangariro. Montana Congress Mukadzi Jeannette Rankin akati, "Iwe hauchakwanise kuhwina muhondo kunze kwekukunda kudengenyeka," uye mukutaura kwake mudare redzimhosva muKarani mu1918, Max Plowman akati: "Ndiri kusiya basa rangu nekuti handisisiri kutenda kuti hondo inogona kupera." hondo. Hondo kusagadzikana, uye kusagadzikana hakugone kubereka kurongeka. Kuita zvakaipa kuti zvakanaka zviuye kunoonekwa hupenzi. "
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John LaForge, akabatanidzwa ne PeaceVoice, ndiye Co-mutungamiri weNukewatch, boka rekururamisira uye yezvakatipoteredza muWisconsin, uye ari mutevedzeri weArianne Peterson weNuclear Heartland, Revised: Bhuku reChitsuwa cheHNC-based Based United States.
