Posted on 01/16/2008 8:59:05 AM PST by Turret Gunner A20
Peace is the absence of war. Those dissuaded by war are motivated to other means. Dissuasion is the reason for peace.
“Understanding” never caused peace, unless everyone understood the consequences of war. When the consequences of war are to great, peace is the result. WW III did not happen (as expected) as a result of mutual destruction, not because anyone “understood” other’s principles and ambitions.
Our species is not all evolving at the same rate. “Understanding” at many levels is useless. We are to understand that all Americans are Infidels and that if a Muslim kills one, they get 72 virgins for eternity when they die? What are they to understand? How would you help them understand the flaws in their logic? Where does “understanding” and “peace talks” get us when there is no place to even start on common ground?
Some day, say in a thousand or two more years, maybe we can re-define peace. Maybe evolution and technology will help re-define how conflicts are resolved. Maybe the human race will have “understanding” and tolerance. For now, we feeble humans have to define peace as the absence of war or deadly conflict.
IMO
Anyhow, as it stands, the acronym would be US DOP...but, if you add a little additional nomenclature to it like any good liberal would be inclined to do...like Engineering or Environ...it would then fully round out to the US DOPE.
Fitting.
Yep. That's probably why he's going there -- to get his marching orders.
Just change the signs in front of the State Department the next time either of them visit. Cheaper than creating a new Cabinet-level department. If they are that stupid, the plan should work.
A TRUE Department of Peace would spend 90% of its time denouncing Muslims nations and tribes for persecution, mass murder and stopping peace on nearly every continent.
Better yet, I’m going over to his house tonight, to fool around with his woman and to take whatever of his stuff I like. And just trash the rest. All in the name of peace, you know.
The Department of Defense is our Department of Peace.
Who is it who has brought peace to Europe, Japan, South Korea and more. Who is bringing peace to the mid-east now - the American GI!!!
Fixed.
There -- fixed.
peace is not the absense of conflict. Peace occurs when the people live in freedom, with control of their own destinies and hope of a life everlasting.
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From the i-salami... muzzie lexicon....
PEACE...
Means muzzie conversion...
sharia-law domination...
And/or.....
dhimmitude for anyone leftover....
Peace only comes through Victory.
Then all the ivy league schools and their ilk can have departments of peace studies with someplace to actually send them to “work” where they get huge salaries paid for by the great unwashed. This, in turn, will spawn programs in gay peace studies, feminist peace studies, transgender peace studies, various ethnic peace studies, vegan peace studies, disabled peace studies, faith-based peace studies, athiest peace studies, special needs peace studies, intellectually challenged peace studies and other sorts of peace studies which are still just a gleam in the eye of some liberal academic someplace. All of these kinds of peace studies will have tenured professors, and there will be a national peace study accreditation association which will employ hundreds of otherwise unemployable peace study majors. Of course there will have to be scholarly journals, too, and each major religious denomination will feel it now necessary to set up a division of peace studies at its national governing level. Teachers, civil servants of all sorts, social workers, etc. will all be required to take continuing education in peace studies, and the money for all of this will be provided through government grants— which will require even more peace study majors as grant writers and reviewers.
I wonder if there will be an Islamic peace studies, though. Probably not, because mohammedans are so special, being members of the religion of peace and all.
Hey, man: I can dig it! ....You walk into the Washington office building and when the door closes behind you... the walls are covered in cool black velvet and the soft purple lights are all turned down low. From the speakers above, Barry White croons in his soulful baritone: "Oooh darlin' darlin'..mmmm...can't get enough of your love, babe...". One of the Assistant Undersecretaries for the Promotion of Passion slinks up to you in a high-cut silk dress, flashing her warmest white smile and shaking her luxuriant blonde tresses as she purrs: Hi, there, handsome! Welcome to the Department of Love. Mmmm, why don't you come on over to our reception area, and I'll help you get more comfortable...mmm...
Oh, yeah: now that's the kind of serious government reform I can get behind....
Department of Warm Fuzzy Stuff and Really Big Hugs
That’s what I get for not reading all posts before posting myself. You beat me to it.
*boggle*
I'm amazed that these people can dress themselves, let alone get a job.
No, more like...
He did not know where he was. Presumably he was in the Ministry of Love, but there was no way of making certain. He was in a high-ceilinged windowless cell with walls of glittering white porcelain. Concealed lamps flooded it with cold light, and there was a low, steady humming sound which he supposed had something to do with the air supply. A bench, or shelf, just wide enough to sit on ran round the wall, broken only by the door and, at the end opposite the door, a lavatory pan with no wooden seat. There were four telescreens, one in each wall.
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