Seduced by war

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Seduced by war
Our power does not make us great; our greatness gives us power
Thursday, November 01, 2007
By Andrew Murray
I am concerned about a culture that has been seduced by war. I am concerned about a culture that salivates over the raw power of military hardware but shows little sustained interest in the military virtues of courage, loyalty, honor, fidelity and justice. I am concerned that our civilian leaders on both sides of the aisle seem to have forgotten what many of our great generals and admirals, including George Washington, Omar Bradley and Dwight Eisenhower, always knew: that it is not America's military power that makes us great. It is our greatness that makes us powerful.
What makes us a great country is not that we can go anywhere in the world and kill anyone we want. Well, anyone we can find. What makes us great is that we work hard, we tolerate differences, we have room for faith and science. We are great because in the end we know that a healthy, prosperous and happy society not only endures, but needs, diverse opinions, cultures, life styles, fashions and beliefs. No amount of terrorism can take this away from us. We can only take it away from ourselves
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07305/830026-109.stm
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Andrew Murray is a professor of peace studies and the director of the Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pa. ([e-mail]).
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[pwb]

1. And the word Peace is never used anymore.

PEACE.

[RethugAssKicker]

2. peace is an anti-American hippie word !!!

[eppur_se_muova]

3. The first general to fight a 'modern' (unlimited) war had this to say ...

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

~General William Tecumseh Sherman

http://antiwar.com/quotes.php