Antiwar Voices

It is interesting to explore whether these current antiwar voices are liberal or conservative. Traditionally, the thought of antiwar is a more progressive even "hippy" idea. However, with headlines such as "Trump Never Wanted Peace with Palestine" and "Biden's Dangerous Foreign Policy on Ukraine" on the very front page of antiwar.com, this site may actually be a bipartisan way to look at the antiwar movement.

The quote under the about section stating that this actually is a libertarian and bipartisan movement, stating,

"Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity. Either one must forbid the other or one will destroy the other."

Was especially interesting because it explores the idea that an all republican mindset and an all democratic mindset will either be too much or too little, therefore creating some sort of war or something similar. I definitely agree with this fundamental principle. 

The American Conservative looks more at the traditional view of conservatism and the guiding beliefs that founded America. In the early days of America, foreign policy was made to stay out of, which clearly is no longer the sentiment. Today, however, this movement hopes to get back to that same view, especially by promoting antiwar. It is kind of ironic, however, that in being so conservative, they actually end up pushing the spectrum so far to actually agree with the liberal belief of not wanting war.

However, this website also states in its mission and values,

"We support a strong and advanced military unencumbered by the constraints of the military-industrial-congressional complex, one that uses its power judiciously for protecting America’s interests and promoting balance-of-power stability at crucial strategic points upon the globe".

 This differs from the first libertarian website because they believe in the idea of a strong military and therefore many different weapons.

These ideas are never heard within the mainstream news, probably because there is no war for people to be concerned about. All of these strong antiwar voices have a preventative tone about foreign policy. I do think that if there were to be a major war, news sources such as these would come forward to an extent.

However, this is still not mainstream media and is considered an extreme opinion. Having to seek out these viewpoints further on the spectrum is something people need to be mindful of because there is no place in the mainstream news for views such as these because it can incite fear and thinking against what MSM wants to display in daily news.