War

Hippies hate war, as a concept. They tend to protest the use of military force, a practice that got its start back in the 1960s in reaction to the Vietnam War, and extended to the first and second Iraq wars of the 1990s and 2000s. Generally, they believe that it is not ethical for this country to kill and maim the people of another country in the name of “national interests,” which are nearly always political in nature. Indeed, hippies are very distrustful of politicians’ reasons for going to war, and they almost always see some sort of evil, underhanded “true” reason behind it. For example, they believed that the first Iraq war was about oil, and that the second Iraq war was about domestic politics, with Bush needing something to propel his reelection campaign. Good thing neither of those wars were really about what the hippies feared they were about. Otherwise, they might be on to something….