From Where I Stand by Joan Chittister, October 27, 2004: "At the same time, the poor of the world are fighting for survival. They have nothing to lose by dying for it in bombs of their own making. If truth were known, in many cases death would be a blessing. For many, war is not worse than the way they live from day to day. All around the globe, frustration has turned to rage in lands where all employment is slavery and the land is dry and food and resources, cars and jacuzzis, exist only elsewhere. The need to really be prolife everywhere for everyone will challenge us for years to come. If we really want peace we will have to do justice to all the peoples of the world.
Preemptive war does not secure us from such things. It only plants the seeds of the next war as we strike out at the innocent in an attempt to block the guilty rather than make the innocent themselves our allies. "