They will beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
nor will they train for war anymore.  (Isaiah 2:4)

A while back, I posted about the U.S. involvement in the Soviet-Afghan war, how ex-government officials have admitted to funding Islamic extremists in order to suck the Soviets into a prolonged war in Afghanistan. We knew that their 10-year war in Afghanistan would destroy their economy and eventually bring down the Soviet Union. (We didn’t realize how much we would suffer for funding these Islamic extremists. Fortunes of war and all that…)

The U.S. involvement in Afghanistan is at 9 years and counting. While fighting that war, we also began another war in Iraq. And everyone says, “I wonder why our economy is in such bad shape.”

Admittedly, the U.S. has often found war to be profitable. But at some point, a nation that continually chooses war over peace will suffer the consequences.

If I didn’t oppose war from a Christian point of view, I’d be forced to oppose it from a logical point of view.