Dear Mr. Obama:
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating."
Yours,
Francis of Assisi
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No Peace Through Military Strength
THIS ARTICLE APPEARED ALMOST A YEAR AGO BUT SEEMS APPROPRIATE TO CURRENT EVENTS:
Dec-20-2013
No Peace Through Military Strength
Patrick T. Hiller Special to Salem-News.com
A response to Catherine Ashton's "To Secure Peace, Be Ready for Battle".
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(PORTLAND, OR) - “The War to End all Wars” never achieved what H.G. Wells implied with this term. On the contrary, World War I not only resulted in the death of more than 16 million humans, it also resulted in a victor’s peace directly setting the stage for World War 2 where an estimated 60 to 100 million people died. I like to believe that no World War is on the horizon, but I was quite surprised to read the headline of a Wall Street Journal opinion piece “To Secure Peace, Be Ready for Battle. The surprise not so much was the title itself. This language—promoting ‘peace’ by amassing more military—has been all-too-familiar and all-too-common in the twenty-first century perpetual ineffective and counterproductive war on terror and other misguided relics like humanly insane nuclear deterrence or the offensive, war-waging North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
The entire article by Ashton is so misguided that it is hard to focus on one part. Should we talk about the immorality of Western global power projection, the ineffectiveness of military versus nonviolent alternatives, the myth of the “defense” sector as a job creator or corporate interests in building “defense” machinery? Apparently it would have been nice from Ashton’s European Union perspective to have more of their own air tankers refuel the fighter jets while bombing the country of Libya to get rid of a dictator. It is troubling that Ms. Ashton seriously is using the Libyan example as a success story. All alarm bells should be ringing by now.
- Patrick. T. Hiller, Ph.D., Hood River, OR, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is a Conflict Transformation scholar, professor, on the Governing Council of the International Peace Research Association, and Director of the War Prevention Initiative of the Jubitz Family Foundation.
TIME HAS SERVED TO MAKE MR. HILLER'S POINT ALL THE MORE TRUE... LIBYA A MESS, ISIS RISES, BOCA HAREM CONTINUES TO TERRORIZE, UKRAINE UNDER THREAT IN SPITE OF PEACE NEGOTIATIONS, ISRAEL CONTINUES TO PRACTICE GENOCIDE ON THE WEST BANK AND SHOOTS DOWN A SYRIAN JET TODAY - PROVOCATEURS AND WANTS IRAN CENSORED INSTEAD OF JOINING IN CONFRONTING MILITANT ISLAM. WHERE DOES IT ALL COLLAPSE AND CAUSE MUCH LARGER CONFRONTATIONS?
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