Geov Parrish: Peace on Earth: the prospects

[Raster]

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=16180

Despite rising conflict worldwide, its closer than you think

Remember those quaint, nostalgic times when this season was associated with the phrase “Peace On Earth”? That is, way back in the days before our born-again leader with the proclaimed personal ear of God started ordering up wars the way other politicians ask for planning studies? Before our nation became so drunken with manufactured bogeymen and antiseptic media invasions and patriotic warmongering fever that war’s unpleasantness made it something people wished absolutely to avoid? When peace was considered a good thing, not the way of cowards?

>snippity do dah<

The force at work is both so simple that politicians ignore it and so powerful that politicians cannot control it. It is hope, particularly the hope of ordinary people in all parts of the world. It is our hope for peace and for lives without fear of hunger and privation and a better future for our children and grandchildren.

>snippers<

We are the hope. And even as headlines and holiday toys ooze blood and war, the tens of millions who poured into the streets this year are still among us. Peace is afoot, and closer at hand than most of us realize, battering at the walls of fortress America. Power concedes nothing without a struggle, and fundamental change takes time -- but these days, the changes are coming faster than ever before.

>...a snip, snip here and a snip, snip there...<

If we’re willing, much of the rest of the world is ready. It’s in our hands. Happy holidays, and here’s to peace on earth in 2004 and beyond.

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=16180

[ixion]

1. indeed... barbarianism is so fashionable these days

it makes me :puke:

Here's to wishing for Peace on Earth, however slight the actual chances of that really are. :toast:

[eridani]

2. Kucinich always says that peace is inevitable

I'm more the sourball Noam Chomsky type who thinks we can have it, maybe, if we work for it.