Reply #6: The reverse is our reality [View All]

[BeFree]

Jack said:
"Let us focus instead on a more practical, more attainable peace -- based not on a sudden revolution in human nature but on a gradual evolution in human institutions -- on a series of concrete actions and effective agreements which are in the interest of all concerned. There is no single, simple key to this peace -- no grand or magic formula to be adopted by one or two powers. Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenge of each new generation. For peace is a process -- a way of solving problems".

...'the product of many nations'... But all it takes is one to destroy the peace. All it took was one country to invade Iraq. The only way it could invade was because it had built up it's armies... had it a reasonable army, it could have never invaded, hence there would be peace.

When that nation decided to increase it's armies beyond reasonable defense levels, it set the stage for destroying the peace. Unfortunately, there seemed to be just 10% of that nation's people who were against the buildup of that nation's armies. I doubt that number has grown... it remains at or near ten percent. That bodes ill for making true peace a reality.