Nuclear Bombers and Airstrikes Are Not Peace Signals
© Photo: Flickr/Staff Sgt. David Nolan Pope Francis was absolutely right that peace is more powerful than war — but military confrontation is popular and profitable. In Mosul on 7 March, during his visit to war-shattered Iraq, Pope Francis said he reaffirmed his conviction that “peace is more powerful than war.” Coincidentally and ironically, on the same day the Pentagon war machine sent a flight of B-52 nuclear bombers to menace Iran, which seems to be next on the Washington / Israel destruction list. The U.S. military’s Central Command then declared that the operation was intended...