We actually need peace in all the nation and eradicates all war promoters.

For millennia, people have hoped for peace in their time.
Today, as usual, there is no shortage of grand
proposals for peace, such as new defensive devices, yet arms
races and wars continue, sometimes creating the
discouraging idea that hopes for peace are too "idealistic".

Global preparations for "defense" consume an immense and
growing proportion of human financial, material, and
personal resources, in a world that is already overburdened
with social and economic problems. All over the world, scientists
and engineers devote their skills to planning new and more
efficient ways for humans to kill one another, workers labour
to manufacture instruments of death, and soldiers train for
combat.

From a moral and even an economic point of view, this vast
investment of human ingenuity and energy seems a tragic waste.

And looming over all these military preparations and
counter-preparations is humanity's ultimate threat, the
unleashing of full-scale nuclear war.

The obsessive focus on the threat of weapons as the way to
avoid war blinds us to the central question: Is anything
that we value so important that we can justify risking the
destruction of our societies, the murder of hundreds of
millions of people, and the jeopardising of our very species?

Eradicate all war promoters!? Now who would they be? The Sabre rattling Russian President? The genocidal, homicidal Syrian dictator? The Kurd killing Turkish Tyrant? The Kamikaze North Korean killer? And a few other tinpot potentates, (ISIS etc) who just want to rule the world!

About a half dozen individuals in all, who seriously believe a sovereign border and a brain washed support base, give them carte blanche to do as they see fit or please? And it shouldn't!

Those who just want to live in peaceful cohabitation, should summon the essential testicular fortitude to unite behind a single minded purpose, recognize the exact problem and eradicate it! By whatever means necessary! And I do mean by whatever means necessary or available!

Starting with humane negotiated voluntary exile and escalating to enforced removal, imprisonment for the term of their natural life, and then as a last resort, elimination, with a well placed 50 calibre pill between the peepers, to absolute oblivion at the nose cone of a cruise missile or great big ten ton bunker buster bomb!

Let there be no doubt we want these folks, emasculated, exiled or eradicated and before they can involve whole populations in their genocidal pursuits! And the only guaranteed way to actually give peace a chance!

And given what is actually required by all peace loving nations and or so called leaders who just want to wash their hands or leave to someone anyone else? Pigs might fly! Go figure! I mean, seriously!

Cume by yar and lets give peace a chance, sung by chanting mobs, with flowers in their hair, won't do it! And won't stop bombs raining down on their heads if any one of a half dozen power hungry madmen decide to pull the pin! even if some pea brain pin heads believe it or umbrellas will!
Alan B.

The author is right, give peace a chance.

Just as the John Howard inspired laws that made it illegal to possess anything for the purpose of self defence have made Australia a safe place, the world could follow suit and just as there is no aggression or violent crime in Australia, the world could become the same.

As the Porcine Species flew through the air there would be no need for fighter planes or bombers or armies or police.

So basically the author of this article’s whole plan for stopping war is to talk about peace.
It offers nothing but words as a solution. Words can't solve the Palestinian conflict, and nor
have they been able to solve the Syrian conflict.
The author praises the pope, who would rather blame Western countries for the the plight
of Africa, Syria, etc. than condem these countries for their over populations which cause their poverty,wars, famines,droughts(from the cutting down of the trees) from the expanding populations.
Also the extinction of many beautiful animals, like the tiger and elephant who must compete wih the 6 billion people on earth for land and space.
Not the Wesrern countries causing this, and not global warming causing the droughts over.there, but the barren landscape devoid of trees, used by humans.

When are our schools going to stop brainwashing people to have these stupid utopian ideas, instead of teaching them biological factual realities. Humankind is driven by the sexual mating Instinct, and the territorial instinct to protect their offspring.
Hence families, and war. Our instincts override our intelligence to a large extent.
In fact we use our intelligence to obtain that which we desire. A family and the territorial resources
to provide for them. We spend our whole lives doing exactly that, having children and providing
for and protecting them. And we keep huge territorial armies and weapons at hand to go to war to
protect them from being dispossessed of their land and territory.
It's so obvious, blind Freddy could see it, but not our esteemed academics, who perfer to believe
they can change the biological imperatives of a whole species,humans, just by thinking and talking it away. No, they can't, but they persist in believing they can, and thus writing absolute rubbish like the tosh in this article.

I'm going to repeat what I've written in the past on
this forum -

A fundamental insight of sociology is that once people
no longer take their world for granted, but instead
understand the social authorship of their lives and
futures, they can become an irresistible force in
history.

Whether we choose to destroy our civilisation or save it
is a collective decision. If more and more nuclear weapons
are built, and if more sophisticated means of delivering
them are devised, and if more and more nations get control
of these vile devices, then surely we risk our own
destruction.

If ways are found to reverse that process, then we can
divert unprecedented energy and resources to the real
problems that face us, including poverty, disease,
overpopulation, injustice, oppression and the
devastation of our natural environment. For that to
happen we need strong leadership - to lead the way.
And put words into actions.
Then perhaps our choice to save this planet can be
achieved.