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You name it...it's been resolved by force...the Revolutionary War,...Great Britain was never going to release the colonies thru diplomacy.....it took years of War to do that....Slavery..diplomacy failed to rid us of it..it took the Civil War...WW1....Wilson thought he could use diplomacy but it failed as the Japanese walked out after their initial wars of conquest....WW2...Chamberlain thought he could use diplomacy to hold back Hitler...etc.etc...history is resplendent with actions that were only resolved thru the use of force. So I ask...is diplomacy at best a stopgap measure for situations where force will be used at some point? |
Exactly. Why did the white man ever use diplomacy with the pesky redskins? He should have honestly and forthrightly killed every Indian man, woman and child, or enslaved them so that the continent could be free for the expansion of the real owners, white Americans...
(Irony)
Actually, that is what the Spanish did and it resulted in two things: A great deal of wealth for the Spanish crown and the overlord class, and a long-standing issue of corruption and injustice in Spanish America. Not to mention the misery of the stepped-on Indians, but who cares? The issues were resolved by force.[/b][/quote]
Well, Anoald is trying to work out a new treaty to make Indians pay taxes for their gambling operations - so far he did not send in the National Guard. But it is true that many conflicts ended up as wars and the winner was in charge of making whatever treaty followed. I guess that is also the philosophy of terrorism. To force an agreement. I think Ben Franklin worked out a peaceful agreement with france, money talks.
Do not recall any war with Canada over where to draw the borader lines.
But the fact remains that no one has much faith in the concept "give peace a chance". The U.N. was set up with that hope in mind but the warlord nations wanted to keep up the sale of weapons because much of their economy was based on that industry.
We had a revolution demanding that our government give peace a chance, they would not listen, and so now they are still stuck with war after war, and I must say we deserve our fate because that rejection.
If no one really tires it then it cannot come to pass. As long as people in their agressive leadership roles believe that peace is being girly, we will not know peace. Peace can only enter when all hatred is gone.
But hey, why not give peace a chance? For a change? It might be just what the doctor ordered.
Technosoul.