War and non-violence

 

The USS John Lewis?

    It is almost always dangerous to ask, and even more so to answer, a question asking what someone no longer alive would say about events today. But I'll do it anyway.
      The U.S. Navy is naming a ship for U.S. Representative John Lewis (D-Georgia), the same John Lewis who stood with Martin Luther King as leaders of the non-violence movement.
     The ship is not a gunboat. But it will carry oil to the gunboats as part of the necessarily violent mission of the U.S. Navy.

Despite more than 40 arrests, physical attacks and serious injuries, John Lewis remained a devoted advocate of the philosophy of nonviolence.

                                                                               From https://johnlewis.house.gov/


     So the question is: If MLK had lived, would he have agreed to have his name put on a military war ship?