Waging Peace
We are very good at waging war. What would waging peace look like? How can we wage peace in countries like Libya, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and other countries where violence is a daily occurrence? How could we effectively wage peace to stop the killing?
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I hope to see some very good ideas.
Peace is not economically viable.
Wage peace? If we can control the Islamic dictators who want genocide to America perhaps….But this would be impossibe as Islam is a religious ideology. They have been fighting a religious war since the beginning of time.
Perhaps if we waved white flags and backed away? No, I don’t think so. Their determination to rule the west is too strong and, they will not let go of their agenda. These countries have been waging war on Israel who is our friend;
withdrawing from the Islams we withdraw from Israel. America will not do this.So I do not know how the question you asked will be answered. It is simple to say “withdraw” “stop fighting”… too easy and,this is not a reality. The only way we can wage peace is to join them, and I for one would rather die then at their hand. Mari ana.
Impossible, John,
As long as we have religion, there will never be world peace.
Its what has kept the endless wars in the middle east alive since the beginning of time.
I have to agree with Temy Beal…I hate war and would love nothing more than to abolish it and replace it with a sporting event series like the olympics to settle our differences…but the liquidity of money changing hands would be nowhere near the impetus that war and conflict brings to the global money wheel.
It’s a sad fact that our global society benefits economically from war and conflict at the morbid cost of young adult lives and in some cases—children. This nation’s defense budget and supplementals alone are enough to keep our economy creeping along—without the wearing out of the uniforms, the crashing of the helicopters and airplanes, the destruction of uparmored Humvees by focused IEDs, the millions of gallons of fuel used to make electricity and make our tanks and airplanes go vroom vroom vroom, the expenditure of the millions of tons of ordinace to kill a single taliban sniper (I exagerrated) and all the salaries of the CIA, FBI, DHS, NSA, US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, US Coast Guard, US Marines and all the reserve unit personnel—it is a booming economy all it’s own. It is sad, it is barbarak and there is NOBODY in this country of ours who does not touch money with the blood of war on it. Nobody. You even benefdit from war, John.
We as human race must seek an end to capitalism—they say that money is the root of all evil…I agree.
It would be nice if we could….but I don’t see it happening.
Capitalism and patriarchy. Get rid of those then see if we can live with no war – I bet we could.
So we don’t have any original thinkers here. Just because it has never happened it cannot happen. So instead of waging peace we continue to wage hate and war.
I’m having my first cup of coffee with green tea in it right now, so I won’t address the topic of how to Wage Peace in countries having civil wars, but I’ve had ideas for how to use the Military in Waging Peace for a long time.
Waging Peace is a political method, just like waging war, but it doesn’t cost anywhere near as much. In addition to what we already teach soldiers in basic training, we include methods of waging peace. These include, Paramedic Training, Fire Fighting, how to save people from drowning, and anything else involved to dealing with a disaster/rescue operation. The idea is that if there is an earthquake, a tsunami, a major forest fire, a flood, or a famine, any sort of major natural disaster, that we deploy our troops and see how many lives can be saved
Food and water are less expensive than bulletins and bombs, and a live friend, is better than a dead enemy, and a whole lot better than the collateral damage of innocent people killed or maimed in a war zone. It’s a pretty safe bet that anybody whose life was saved because our Military Waged Peace, won’t be inclined to hate Americans. That would allow us to reduce our military budget to 20% of what it is now, and we would be even safer.
There’s also the added benefit that our people coming out of the military, would know how to deal with any emergency situation that might crop up in civilian life, which is a whole lot better than having a lot of homeless Veterans with their minds half way in hell.
I’m reminded of “1984”,and it’s War Is Peace =
“The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are set at such an angle that they are incapable of hurting one another. But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society needs. War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. The very word “war,” therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. The peculiar pressure that it exerted on human beings between the Neolithic Age and the early twentieth century has disappeared and has been replaced by something quite different. The effect would be much the same if the three superstates, instead of fighting one another, should agree to live in perpetual peace, each inviolate within its own boundaries. For in that case each would still be a self-contained universe, freed forever from the sobering influence of external danger. A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. This — although the vast majority of Party members understand it only in a shallower sense — is the inner meaning of the Party slogan: WAR IS PEACE”.
Some parts of me are still idealistic enough to believe that universal freedom and peace ARE possible,but it would need a re-evaluation of what power REALLY is. True power is something that does not seek to be wielded at the expense of others. What we think of as power – which merely amounts to the subjugation of those in weaker positions – is simply because our lives are so…BRIEF. True power doesn’t wear a smile and brandish a whip. Greatly,power is acceptance and love and the ability to grant absolute freedom. So until the current diminished version of “power” is overhauled…any peace we can attain is just another form of war.
And I do not agree that money is the root of all evil. It’s the GREED behind it that causes the problems.