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Achieving peace in our time is easy as pie - you don your burkha and figure out which way faces Mecca.

[Hildy]

I give you a 10 for the sentiment...but a 2 for the spelling...Spell check is your friend!

[johniegrad]

rock-n-roll guitar libertarian

Demi-dolt?

[Cobra64]

I agree. Though it is a shame that some folks cannot configure a sentence.

Most of us here, were taught to understand puncuation and the use of the shift key when initiating a sentence. Or, as Rush would say, "For those in Rio Linda."

LOL

[Randy Larsen]

I Love Vanities!Not Sarcasm)

[Rembrandt]

I was in Vietnam in 68-69-70 for peace; you're right, peace is earned, not granted by some divine spirit.

[Reactionary]

Only the dead have seen the end of war. As for liberals, they're only for peace when one of their favorite dictators has been thrown out of power.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

4. Peace does not mean the absence of war.

From Rush Limbaugh's "35 Undeniable Truths"

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~dni1/humor/lists/Rush.shtml

[KrisKrinkle]

"peace comes from strength, not from appeasement"

Actually, peace can come from appeasement as much as from strength when appeasement is offered in the face of strength. Of course it's usually only a temporary peace.

And it depends on how you define peace as does the question "how does peace happen??? "


If peace is the absence of active violence, then peace can happen as a result of strength and appeasement. But both strength and appeasement imply violence held in reserve for use when necessary, so that may not be true peace.

I heard it said (in a movie of all places, but I liked it) that peace is not the absence of violence, but the presence of justice. And it's been said justice is every one having his own right.

So, if peace is the presence of justice, then maybe peace happens through personal enlightenment and self discipline. When we become knowledgeable of our own rights, the rights of others and the limits of those rights, and at the same time become self-disciplined enough to not transgress those rights even though we might want to, then perhaps we'll have peace.

Maybe.

And if that's peace, I wouldn't look for peace to happen anytime soon.

[TChad]

Peace is the absence of war, but governments kill more people in peacetime than in wartime. We should be looking to reduce human slaughter, not just "peace".

Below are selected quotes from http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/welcome.html:

"Nearly 170 million people probably have been murdered by governments in the 20th Century, 1900-1987; over four times those killed in combat in all international and domestic wars during the same years."

"In sum the communist probably have murdered something like 110,000,000, or near two-thirds of all those killed by all governments, quasi-governments, and guerrillas from 1900 to 1987."

"In no case (since 1816) has there been a war involving violent military action between stable democracies..." "...Indeed, we have here a general principle that is gaining acceptance among students of international relations and war. That is that democracies don't make war on each other. To this I would add that the less democratic two states the more likely that they will fight each other."

[Nothometoday]

Thank you for your fathers service!
I hope we see more tomorrow at the Pro troops rally!
( not a good speller, Myself)

[BCrago66]

Are you a member of the "proud to be incoherent" club? Do you think that capital letters are tools of oppresion? Or is it that you're just too damn lazy to write an actual sentence?

[Salamander]

"or does the peace fairy smack us with a star on a stick???"

One way or another I'm gonna work that into a conversation or steal it for a tagline....;))

[it's late, I gotta cold or somethin' and things are hitting me funny tonight...sorry]...;>