by Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project:
Peace is perhaps among the most paramount of worldly concepts today. As we live in an age of constant imperialist aggression, never ending provocation, upheaval, and perpetual war, as brinksmanship pushes us to the brink of potential complete annihilation it is now more pertinent than ever that not only Americans but people around the world, but especially Americans, embrace the concept of lasting peace.
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On June 10th, 1963 president John F. Kennedy gave what was one of his administrations defining speeches. Speaking to the graduating class of American University in Washington DC the President would go on for nearly half an hour describing the complex geopolitics of the Cold War era and the terrible fate that nearly befell humanity should cooler heads had not prevailed and emphasizing the utmost importance of a foreign policy rooted in peace, non aggression, understanding, and mutual cooperation.
Peace — A notion which the President considered “the most important topic on earth”. A sentiment which very much still rings true today among astute observers of our geopolitical situation.
We live in a time in which the threat of nuclear exchange is far higher than it ever was during the height of the Cold War, yet many turn a blind eye to it in exchange for the false sense of security that ignorance guarantees. Even in the event of a non-nuclear conflict between global superpowers the casualties of that calamity would be far greater than anything ever seen on this planet before. More than the two previous world wars or anything else imaginable.
Yet the remarks of President Kennedy then can be and should be just as applicable today as they were sixty years ago.
“I speak of peace because of the new face of war. Total war makes no sense in an age where great powers can maintain large and relatively invulnerable nuclear forces and refuse to surrender without resort to those forces. It makes no sense in an age when a single nuclear weapon contains almost ten times the explosive force delivered by all the allied air forces in the Second World War. It makes no sense in an age when the deadly poisons produced by a nuclear exchange would be carried by wind and water and soil and seed to the far corners of the globe and to generations yet unborn.”
President Kennedy spoke of peace, in his own words, as “the necessary rational end of rational men”. Therein lies the crux of our modern conundrum; We are no longer governed by rational men who seek a rational means of conflict resolution, but rather arguably a cabal of madmen who prioritize their own ends over the well-being of humanity.
A political system whose foreign policy is firmly under the control of war profiteers whose primary incentive is a financial one, and power hungry megalomaniacs driven not by the desire to see human civilization flourish and prosper but by their own selfish desires for a unipolar hegemony which sees the United States as the sole arbiter of order across the world, held together by force or threats of force. The very pax-Americana President Kennedy warned of in his opening remarks.
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