Peace Through Strength?Republican Presidential Candidate Duncan Hunter is running on the basis of his ties with companies that profit from war and military buildup - companies like Titan Corporation. So, Representative Hunter has established a political action committee entitled Peace Through Strength. The idea of peace through strength is that only by having an immense military and by waging wars all around the world can we gain peace. The peace part comes later on, after a whole bunch of wars, through which anyone who might stand up to the United States of America learns that resistance is futile. Peace through strength is as ridiculous an idea as establishing marital fidelity through sexual affairs. For a moment, however, let’s assume that the basic idea of peace throgh strength is not ridiculous. Let us suppose that, in theory, peace through strength makes lots and lots of sense. There’s still a problem with the way that Republicans like Duncan Hunter promote an agenda of peace through strength. They aren’t strong. Just take a look at what’s going on over in Iraq. Consider, for that matter, the mess of Afghanistan. Is that what Duncan Hunter thinks strength looks like? If you go to war with the ideology of peace through strength, and then aren’t able actually be strong in war, then you have neither peace nor strength. You have havoc through ineptitude. The policy of havoc through ineptitude is what Duncan Hunter wants to continue. I think that there’s a better policy. It’s called peace through peace. |
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