War and Law

[Sgt Barker]

You confuse the victims of war with the perpetrators. The women you speak of, if they actually exist, have known nothing but war since their births and have been alternatively bombed and strafed by the Israelis, the Americans or their own governments. They don’t “want” war; they are desperate, and have nothing to lose, hence “suicide” bombings.

It doesn’t matter why a woman wants war to contradict your statement that “women don’t want war.” Few if any, man or woman, who want war see themselves as unjustified. Most if not all see themselves as victims, righteously making war to obtain justice. Your specific example no more shows that women don’t want war than using a grieving Chilean woman who joins a religious order after losing her son to government violence shows that women don’t want religious commitment.

In short, the fact that a woman grows up with war and feels justified in making war doesn’t support the argument that “women don’t want war.” It shows, in fact, the opposite; women do want war.