The Best Peace Money Can Buy? by Future of Freedom Foundation April 1, 2010 The phrase "peace at any price" has a new meaning. These days it means the American taxpayer will be forced to pay any price to make the president of the United States look good at a peace conference. This is how our Middle East policy goes. A president has domestic problems. What to do? War is always good for distracting people. Shakespeare knew that. He had a king ever prepared to "busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels." But war has risks-and not just for the soldiers. If the casualties are high, war can backlash against the president who sent them into action. But it can be very successful, for a time. George Bush got quite a p.r. bump out of our splendid little war against Iraq. Unfortunately for him, it was too far in advance of the 1992 election. A safer option is the surgical strike. It seems to have all the advantages of outright war, with little or no risk. ...
The Best Peace Money Can Buy? by Sheldon Richman December 1, 1998 The phrase "peace at any price" has a new meaning. These days it means the American taxpayer will be forced to pay any price to make the president of the United States look good at a peace conference. This is how our Middle East policy goes. A president has domestic problems. What to do? War is always good for distracting people. Shakespeare knew that. He had a king ever prepared to "busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels." But war has risks-and not just for the soldiers. If the casualties are high, war can backlash against the president who sent them into action. But it can be very successful, for a time. George Bush got quite a p.r. bump out of our splendid little war against Iraq. Unfortunately for him, it was too far in advance of the 1992 election. A safer option is the surgical strike. It seems to have all the ...
The Best Peace Money Can Buy? by Future of Freedom Foundation April 1, 2010 The phrase "peace at any price" has a new meaning. These days it means the American taxpayer will be forced to pay any price to make the president of the United States look good at a peace conference. This is how our Middle East policy goes. A president has domestic problems. What to do? War is always good for distracting people. Shakespeare knew that. He had a king ever prepared to "busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels." But war has risks-and not just for the soldiers. If the casualties are high, war can backlash against the president who sent them into action. But it can be very successful, for a time. George Bush got quite a p.r. bump out of our splendid little war against Iraq. Unfortunately for him, it was too far in advance of the 1992 election. A safer option is the surgical strike. It seems to have all the advantages of outright war, with little or no risk. ...
The Best Peace Money Can Buy? by Future of Freedom Foundation April 1, 2010 The phrase "peace at any price" has a new meaning. These days it means the American taxpayer will be forced to pay any price to make the president of the United States look good at a peace conference. This is how our Middle East policy goes. A president has domestic problems. What to do? War is always good for distracting ...
TGIF: The Greatness of Peace Activist John Bright by Sheldon Richman May 24, 2013 As we approach Memorial Day — or what I like to call Revisionist History Day — it’s fitting to contemplate the words of one of the world’s great peace activists, John Bright (1811–1889). Bright, a Quaker and Nonconformist, is best known for leading (with Richard Cobden) Britain’s Anti-Corn Law League, the organization that fought successfully to abolish ...
TGIF: War, Peace, and Murray Rothbard by Sheldon Richman July 18, 2014 With wars raging in the Middle East, it seems like a good time to revisit a classic work by Murray Rothbard (1926–1995), the economist, historian, and political philosopher who had a lot to do with the birth and evolution of the modern libertarian movement. His “War, Peace, and the State” is something that all peace advocates — ...
U.S. Perversity on Peace in Korea by Jacob G. Hornberger September 19, 2018 Just when you think that the U.S. national-security state’s policy toward Korea can’t get more perverse, it does. The latest perversion? Opposing a peace agreement between North Korea and South Korea! Imagine that. And why would U.S. officials oppose such an agreement? Because it would inevitably lead to calls for U.S. troops in Korea to be sent packing home ...
JFK’s Remarkable Peace Speech that Sealed His Fate by Jacob G. Hornberger February 28, 2023 The deep animosity against Russia and China that the U.S. national-security establishment has inculcated in the American people brings to mind the remarkable speech that President Kennedy delivered on June 10, 1963, at American University that sealed his fate. Just imagine what would happen to any American who today dares to say good things about Russia and China. ...
“Mr. Speaker, Peace Is Always Superior to War” by Anthony Gregory September 1, 2007 A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship by Ron Paul (Lake Jackson, Texas: Foundation for Rational Economics and Education, 2007); 372 pages; $19.95. “Mr. Speaker, peace is always superior to war,” said Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) ...
“Mr. Speaker, Peace Is Always Superior to War” by Jacob G. Hornberger March 30, 2010 A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship by Ron Paul (Lake Jackson, Texas: Foundation for Rational Economics and Education, 2007); 372 pages; $19.95. “Mr. Speaker, peace is always superior to war,” said Congressman Ron Paul ...
Obama and Kerry Jeopardize Peace with Iran by Sheldon Richman January 30, 2014 Barack Obama and John Kerry should make up their minds: Do they want war or peace with Iran? We should hope for peace, but Obama and Kerry make optimism difficult. Ideally, the Obama administration would simply exit the Middle East, taking all its military and economic aid with it. The U.S. government cannot micromanage events there, especially ...
Barack Obama: The Peace Candidate? by Sheldon Richman June 25, 2008 Why would anyone think that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is the peace candidate? True, before President Bush sent an invasion force to Iraq and before Obama was in the Senate, he made a speech saying intervention would be a mistake. But after the invasion, in 2004, he said he wasnt sure how he would have voted when the ...
