[whataretheysaying] Mary Madigan: Why can't we all just get along?

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Posted by Mary Madigan:
Why can't we all just get along?
http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1172167659.shtml


   Everyone loves peace, they just define it in different ways.

   Pacifists define 'peace' as the absence of war, and for that reason
   they're willing to look the other way as genocide occurs. Democratic
   governments define 'peace' as unencumbered trade between nations that
   don't slaughter their people or their neighbors en masse.

   Osama bin Laden defines peace as a worldwide Caliphate under Islamic
   law, as do his sponsors.

   Hitler thought that getting rid of the Jews and oppressing/killing all
   non-Aryans would lead to a perfect peace.

   The Left dreams that peace that will come from state-enforced equality
   and UN control of US actions.

   Of peace in the Middle East, Egyptian blogger [1]Sandmonkey said:

     ..the Israeli want peace with us because they don't want their
     lives disrupted. They don't want to have the IDF soldiers fighting
     in Gaza, rockets coming into their towns from Hamas or having to go
     to wars against Hezbollah to get their soldiers back. I think they
     want peace because they want their peace of mind. They view us as
     if we were a headache. We view them as if they are a cancer.

   During the middle ages, the Catholic Church was all about peace. They
   thought the crusades were the best way to achieve it. Gandhi was one
   of our most peace-loving leaders, yet his actions led to a
   religious-ethnic conflict that claimed 4 million lives.

   One reason why the term 'peace process' means little and accomplishes
   less.

References

   1. http://www.sandmonkey.org/2006/07/17/our-left-their-left/