War Is the Answer

[Valin]

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Daniel Greenfield

11/24/12

 

For the last hundred years the best and brightest of the civilized world have been engaged in the business of peace. In the days before the Nobel Peace Prize became a joke, it was expected that scientific progress would lead to moral progress. Nations would accept international laws and everyone would get together to replace wars with international conferences.

 

Instead technological progress just gave us better ways to kill each other. There have been few innovations in the moral technology of global harmony since Immanuel Kant’s “Perpetual Peace” laid out a plan to grant world citizenship to all refugees and outlaw all armies, invasions and atrocities with the whole shebang would be overseen by a League of Nations.

 

That was in 1795 and Kant’s plan was at least more reasonable than anything we have two-hundred years later today because it at least set out to limit membership in this body to free republics. If we had done that with the United Nations, it could conceivably have become something resembling a humane organization. Instead it’s a place where the dictators of the world stop by to give speeches about human rights for a show that’s funnier than anything you could find eight blocks away at the Broadway Comedy Club.

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The really unofficial motto of SAC

[SrWoodchuck]

Great post [& comments] @Valin!

 

One of my favorite sentences:

 

Peace was made for reasonable people who are willing to give and take. It was not made for those who only take.

[Valin]

Great post [& comments] @Valin!

 

One of my favorite sentences:

 

Peace was made for reasonable people who are willing to give and take. It was not made for those who only take.

 

As Victor Davis Hanson has pointed out many people today (mainly on the Left think that Peace is the natural state of man, when its not, war/conflict is.