Peace Tags
Bloomingdale’s is advertising jewelry with a political message. A necklace by designer Georgianna Koulianos is fashioned to look like military dog tags. But the tags read “Imagine” “Peace” and “Love.”
So trendy ladies in Chevy Chase and Manhattan are going to wear these accessories to advertise their moral superiority to the guys who wear the real ones? The guys who wear these so that their bodies can be identified if they should be killed or maimed by our enemies? The guys who voluntarily endure terrible heat, bad food, separation from their families, and sickening boredom punctuated by shattering fear?
The problem I have with moral superiority among the anti-war set is the fact that opposing the war in Iraq isn’t, in fact, morally superior to supporting it. These same people that are against the war in Iraq spend a lot of time talking about the need for intervention in Darfur to stop the genocide there, yet Iraq under Saddam was every bit the humanitarian crisis Darfur is now.
Is it really “morally superior” to oppose the people who toppled Saddam and are fighting to defend the representative government set up in his place? The people fighting against religious extremists who would like to see the Iraqi people oppressed under the radical terms of their perverted strain of Islam?
That doesn’t sound very superior to me.
